ELECTRONIC SIGNATURES:

A Review of the Exceptions to
the Electronic Signatures in
Global and National Commerce Act

June 2003

National Telecommunications and Information Administration

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

1401 Constitution Avenue, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20230
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ELECTRONIC SIGNATURES:
A Review of the Exceptions to the Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act

National Telecommunications and Information Administration
Nancy J. Victory
Assistant Secretary for Communications and Information

Kathy D. Smith, Chief Counsel
Milton Brown, Deputy Chief Counsel
Josephine Scarlett, Senior Attorney-Adviser
Jeffrey Joyner, Senior Attorney-Adviser
Stacy Cheney, Attorney-Adviser
Derrick Owens, Special Assistant
to the Associate Administrator
Office of Spectrum Management

Acknowledgments

We would like to acknowledge Teresa Goode, Josephine Johnson, Ranjit De Silva, Clyde Ensslin, Mary Smith, Denise Lenkiewicz and Charles Franz of NTIA, Dan Cohen and Peter Robbins of the Office of General Counsel, Sabrina Montes of the Economics and Statistics Administration, Eric F. Harbert, Karen Henein, Danielle Jafari, Kathleen Jarmiolowski, Laura Lee and Julie Parks, (NTIA Interns) for their contributions to this report.