Procedures To Accredit The Electronic Public Notary

Prof. Dr. Ion IVAN – Academy of Economic Studies

1.	Public Informatics Applications

The Internet development and generalization of the work in the networks make changes in the software industry. The informatics systems of the enterprises are reshaping and become open systems. If in the case of the computers architectures with a limited number of workstations, the informatics flows are created in order to fundament decisions and to make specific activities within the enterprise, the work within an open network allow the growth of the operations complexity through direct connections with the business partners.
Public applications are very important structures for the knowledge based informatics society.
Firstly, the public application is conceived as an open system. This characteristic aims at the access to the processing functions and to the database.
Secondly, a public application is transparent. It is presented the algorithms ensemble and especially the documenting sources, the legal base, so that it is assured the credibility of the offered solutions. 
Thirdly, the application is public oriented. Unlike the client-oriented applications, the public applications are conceived with powerful interfaces where the information is structured according to the citizen options. Using the gathered experience in the public relations, the nodes of the tree structure are configured as in figure 1.
It is considered a A public application for the report looking an airport activities. The initial nodes, defined by a xi name and a fi frequency, (xi,fi) are:
X0 – general information about the airport
X1 – informing way
X2 – flights
X3 – management and organizational structure
X4 –airline companies that they cooperates with
X4i – i company, i=1, 2, …, n
X5 – departures 
X6 – arrivals 
X7 – historical city
X8 – connections with the city
X9 – banks 
X10 – hotels 
X11 – map
X12 – shops
X13 – entertainment
X14 – theaters
X15 – museums
X16 – parks

X00000

X1

X2

X3

X7

X12

X13

X4

X4i

X41

X4n

X5i

X6i

X8

X11

X9

X10

X16

X15

X14

	       …                 …

Fig. 1 The initial structure of the interface

	The essential issue of passing to the public applications is that of reconfiguring the tree structure, depending on the final accessed nodes.
	The accesses counting allows passing from the initial structure to a new structure.
Since for the considered example 
f1 =f2 =f3 = f4 = f7 = f11 = f13 = f14 = f15 = f16 =0
results the tree structure from the figure 2.

X0

X5

X6

X8

X9

X10

	

Fig. 2 The reconfigured structure

	The public application acquires a direct, friendly character, so that every citizen finds the information with the expected structure, naturally. The acquired satisfaction degree is big.
	Another approaches lead to difficult moods of surfing, with undesirable effects over the access frequency. More, sophisticated public applications are rapidly abandoned. 

2.	The Concordance Between Specifications And Finite Products

	In order to develop public applications there are elaborated specific techniques and methods. The methods, techniques and the existent standards for the actual informatics systems and for the software development processes are impossible to extent for the public oriented applications.
	In one way is thought the software development issue for the calculus of the global income tax when the processing are made in the decentralized financial system, and in another way it is designed the system where the citizen has access to a public application.
	In the first case it is accepted the utilization of classical documents with data reintroducing, the citizen being part in the waiting threads, and the costs very expensive.
	In the second case there are designed electronically documents, the citizen completes by himself, at home, all the record fields from the database and makes the electronic payments from his home, too.
	The techniques, methods and standards for the public applications development include distinct chapters and stages for the acquiring of viable finite products and especially for obtaining of viable links with the citizen who pays the access and service price.
	In order to develop public applications there are covered defining stages of the designing, realizing, testing and implementing specifications, all with a different content from the known one for the software development. 
	Specifications elaboration for the public applications takes into account the detailing of the direct users types. Being familiar with the users allows the establishing of the interface complexity level. For the same algorithm there can be designed many interfaces. A single one can globally satisfy the users requirements.
	The specifications contain, at an especially detailing level, all the elements that define the ratio between the application and the public that will access it.
	In the application case, the calculus of the tax over the global income, the specifications include structures of citizen’s homogeneous classes. The criteria of building the classes are: profession, activities type and the sector where they work (state or private). 
	After the realization of the public application it is established the concordance between specifications and the processing and access procedures. Through systematical testing there is evaluated the measure in which the finite product respects the prerequisites included in specifications. 
	The second testing type consists in launching on the network of the application over a limited period with the attachment of control procedures. It is recorded the way the site is visited, how functions are activated and the way the process is finished. The testing under real conditions is made gradually over a controlled sample, with the assist on. There are registered the points where the assistant interfere in the application-citizen relation. There are obtained special informations that allow making of corrections.

3.	Public Notary

	There is a reality that is defined clearly and rigorously through the problem enunciation. This reality is created within an informatics environment, also rigorously defined. There is  the legislation specific to the problem to be solved, there is the legislation of the informatics field, which includes the elements linked to the copyright, data protection, digitally signature, electronic transactions. Also, there is the citizen who is both a partner, and especially a consumer. There are laws which protects the consumer. 
	A new specialization appears, those of electronic notary. It has a complex qualification which includes solid informatics knowledge and in the same measure, juridical knowledge, and technique knowledge specific to the development of the informatics applications with national nature within the informatics society framework.
	The electronic notary is an important personage in the development of Internet applications. 
	Firstly, it analyses the application utility. Its knowledge about the phase of the informatics society development allows the application qualification and forecasting the application success.
	Secondly, the electronic notary analyses the database content and certifies the concordance existence between this and the reality the public application refers.
	Thirdly, the electronic notary applies its signature and makes the application encapsulation with a view to effective implementing in order to become directly accessible. From this moment there is no possibility of altering the application by the producer. In the opposite case, the certifying sigil disappears and the electronic notary from the beginning processes the analysis procedure.
	The existence of a neutral authority – the electronic notary – comes to create a new context for the public applications development. Domains setting up, Web pages loading and, especially, Internet applications development must be administrated so that not to set up those elements and not to develop those swindle actions which compromise the idea itself of e-commerce, e-business, e-informations, and generally mobile applications.
	The authority for the Internet applications administering has the mission of setting up those security and protection elements that remove any swindle oriented public application. The citizen is trained that he has the possibility of accessing certified applications for which the concordance between the content and the social and technical-economic reality is guaranteed. Also, he has the possibility of accessing uncertified applications, free, of documenting type, exploratory or for transactions, for which the visitor integrally assumes the risk of the transactions finality.
	The electronic notary is subordinated to the certification authority. Such as the publishing houses own the ISBN, the electronic notaries administrate labels for the applications individualization as well as encapsulation procedures and safe protection of the certified product.
	Of course, all of the protection and encapsulation elements may be attacked and fraudulent rewrote. Since the accreditation authority administrates all of the accredited public applications, periodical changes of the security systems lead to unjustified expenses that discourage all of the people who develop piracy activities Internet applications oriented.

4.	Conclusions

	The accreditation procedures developed through the public notaries creates a favorable context for the Internet applications development. It is built the trust that the citizen has in the registered trademarks. The accreditation authority sigla that the citizen meets when he accesses a public application is similar to the registered trademark.

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