Literary Warrant for Functional Requirement #12b

This requirement derives from the law, customs, standards and professional best practices accepted by society and codified in the literature of different professions concerned with records and recordkeeping. The warrant is as follows:
Citation The Institute of Internal Auditors Research Foundation; Systems Auditability and Control, Module 8, Telecommunications, 1991
Pages 8-56
Extract Manual or automated controls should be in place when data are transmitted to assure the sender that the data were received and to assure the receiver that all records were transmitted.

Citation Accredited Standard Committee; ASC X12 Standards: Draft Version 3 Release 3; published 12/92. Volume 1: Control Standards, Transaction Set Tables, and Segment Directory; Document No. ASC X12S/92-707
Pages 6
Extract The receiving process must be able to reconstruct the original message from the data delivered by the communication equipment in order for the message to pass the checking process.

Citation "Open Document Architecture (ODA) Raster Document Application Profile (DAP)" Category: Software Standard; Subcategory: Graphics. Federal Information Processing Standards Publication 194 (U.S. Department of Commerce/Technology Administration and National Institute of Standards and Technology, 13 March 1995)
Pages 5
Extract This ISP describes documents that can be interchanged in the formatted form, which facilitates the reproduction of a document as intended by the originator.

Citation "Electronic Manuscript Preparation and Markup", Z39.59-1988, ISSN: 1041- 5653; American National Standard for Electronic Manuscript Preparation and Markup, Approved 1 December 1988 by American National Standards Institute (ANSI) Developed by The National Information Standards Organization (NISO), (New Brunswick: Transcation Publishers 1988).
Pages 5
Extract 4.3 The document format or layout provides the reader with a "visualization" of the logical components--the external view (i.e., layout structure) as applied to the internal framework (i.e., logical structure). The combination of layout and logical structures promotes the comprehension of a document. The various types of processing equipment being used in the publishing world today generally require explicit, device-specific formatting controls to produce documents. Device-independent interchange of documents with embedded device-specific layout commands is currently inefficient, if not impossible. Document incompatibilities could be greatly reduced by eliminating the device-specific formatting controls and including only the structural information for the document.

Citation Wright, B. The Law of electronic commerce. 1991.
Pages 168
Extract Retention of an EDI invoice ... requires the recordmaker to think ahead as much as seven or more years to consider what resources will be available to retrieve and understand the record.

Citation Wright, B. The law of electronic commerce. 1991.
Pages 78
Extract To prove assent [in an electronic contract], the system should retain a secure record that permits reconstruction of the information displayed to the buyer and his response.

Citation Wright, B. The Law of electronic commerce. 1991.
Pages 141
Extract An electronic message can be manipulated and distorted after the time it effects a legal event. An EDI invoice, for example, can be translated, condensed, broken into pieces for entry into various parts of a database, and so forth after its receipt. The way in which this occurs depends on programmer decisions, which can infect the system with biases and judgement errors. Thus, resulting records can be hearsay. The ideal electronic message recordkeeping system would avo ID this "programmer" hearsay altogether. It would keep a record of all transactions exactly as sent and received.