Registered e-mail (REM) — Reliable e-mail for everybody

Abstract

The need for REM: For many years now the market felt the need for a registered and reliable e-mail, suitable to provide evidence just like the paper registered mail. Several implementations have been set up to this purpose: Incamail (Switzerland), Posta Elettronica Certificata — PEC (Italy), Euronot@ries’ MAILWITNESS, De-Mail (Germany), etc. Within the EU project “Pan-European Public Procurement Online” — PEPPOL — its Work Project (WP8) is developing a “secure and reliable transport of electronic business documents”.