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What the digital signature law left unresolved could impede energy marketers' plans for widespread electronic signups.
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Off Peak
August 2000
E-Sign: Messier Than Ink?
By Regina R. Johnson
What the digital signature law left unresolved could impede energy marketers' plans for widespread electronic signups.
With the insertion of an encoded card into a computer and a few strokes of the keyboard, President Clinton on June 30 electronically signed into law the Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act, or "e-sign bill." But first he scrawled his "wet signature" the old-fashioned way--a reminder that widespread acceptance and use of digital signatures still may be some years off.
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