current approach on how to signatures + limitations
6. Legal Considerations
The Trust Envelope model was developed to be regulation-agnostic,
to be able to tackle legal requirements from different jurisdictions,
different branches of law, e.g., data protection or intellectual property law, and
different data types, e.g., personal or non-personal data.
This is of particular importance to understand and correctly model all the parties
that might have rights and obligations over the data unit,
how they interplay, and how they are to be correctly interpreted and enforced.
Nonetheless,
the terms chosen to model data provenance,
in particular related to the source entity of the data,
where kept in line with European legislation
such as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) [gdpr] and the Data Governance Act (DGA) [dga] as these regulations are being followed
and similarly adapted in other jurisdictions' regulations.
Moreover,
by incorporating provenance and usage policies as fundamental components of trustful data exchanges,
Trust Envelopes can be used as auditing tools by external legal authorities to assess good and poor practices of recipients,
and possibly held as proof in judgments for the later case.
7. Namespaces
Commonly used namespace prefixes used in this specification:
Conformance requirements are expressed with a combination of descriptive assertions and RFC 2119 terminology.
The key words “MUST”, “MUST NOT”, “REQUIRED”, “SHALL”, “SHALL NOT”, “SHOULD”, “SHOULD NOT”, “RECOMMENDED”, “MAY”, and “OPTIONAL”
in the normative parts of this document
are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119.
However, for readability,
these words do not appear in all uppercase letters in this specification.
All of the text of this specification is normative
except sections explicitly marked as non-normative, examples, and notes. [RFC2119]
Examples in this specification are introduced with the words “for example”
or are set apart from the normative text with class="example", like this:
This is an example of an informative example.
Informative notes begin with the word “Note”
and are set apart from the normative text with class="note", like this:
