Delegation of Obligations and Responsibility

Meriam Ben Ghorbel (1) , Frédéric Cuppens (2) , Nora Cuppens-Boulahia (2) , Daniel Le Métayer (3) , Guillaume Piolle (4)

1 LUSSI - Département Logique des Usages, Sciences sociales et Sciences de l'Information
2 Lab-STICC_TB_CID_SFIIS
3 LICIT - Legal Issues in Communication and Information Technologies
4 SUPELEC-Campus Rennes

In this paper, we discuss the issue of responsibilities related to the fulfillment and the violation of obligations. We propose to formally define the different aspects of responsibility, namely causal responsibility, functional responsibility, liability as well as sanctions, and to examine how delegation influences these concepts. Our main aim is to identify the responsibility of each agent that is involved in the delegation of obligations. More precisely, we try to answer to the following questions: who is responsible for the obligation fulfillment? When a violation occurs, which agents are causally responsible for this violation? Who is liable for this violation and to whom? And finally, who must be sanctioned?

Mots clés: Obligations; Delegation; Responsibility

Domaines: Informatique [cs]; Cryptographie et sécurité [cs.CR]

Meriam Ben Ghorbel, Frédéric Cuppens, Nora Cuppens-Boulahia, Daniel Le Métayer, Guillaume Piolle. Delegation of Obligations and Responsibility. 26th International Information Security Conference (SEC), Jun 2011, Lucerne, Switzerland. pp.197-209, ⟨10.1007/978-3-642-21424-0_16⟩. ⟨hal-00606018⟩