[Openefm-development] Authentication and Attorney Registration

[Jim B. <be...@co...>]

On Mar 8, 2005, at 2:55 PM, Jeremiah Jahn wrote:

> On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 13:14 -0800, Jim Beard wrote:
>> On Mar 8, 2005, at 11:43 AM, Jeremiah Jahn wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 12:08 -0600, Jeremiah Jahn wrote:
>>>> or to phrase it another way, Who do you idenifiy Who, not where, the
>>>> filing came from?
>>>
>>> cause I can type....that should read HOW do you identify who not 
>>> where
>>> the filing came from?
>>
>> Our current model requires the EFSP to identify itself with a name and
>> password for authentication.  The identity of the filing party is
>> contained with in the XML filing.  We parse the party information from
>> the filing.  We leave the authentication of the filing party up to the
>> EFSP and the court.  It has been our belief that this is similar to 
>> how
>> filings work in real life.  If I want to fake my identity, I can walk
>> into a court and claim to be someone I am not.  Ultimately it would
>> seem to be the courts responsibility to verify that this is true.
> looking at the examples contained in CVS, none of them actually specify
> who the filer is. Am I missing something?

The court filing 1.1 sample has a "filed by party" identified in the 
XML.  I believe the 2GEFS version does as well.  I would not be 
surprised if this is not as clear in the OXCI samples as that 
specification was not as advanced or not tested as well.

Jim Beard
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