RE: Agenda items for Tuesday telephone call

["Carlson, Tom" <tcarlson@ncsc.dni.us>]

Here's a quick re-cap of the extensions issue:

 

There are implementation difficulties with doing extensions via the approved XSTF/GTRI extension mechanism. So alternatives have been proposed. The alternatives would be easier to implement, but at the cost of possibly being non-conformant with the GJXDM. So, there are two questions raised:

 

1) Do we want to risk non-conformancy in the name of implementation ease. (Keeping in mind that non-conformancy could result in loss of funding for projects using Blue?)

2) If so, which alternative should we use?

 

The two alternatives proposed are:

 

1) Require implementations to group local extensions in a separate document, keeping the main document true-Blue.

2) Include catch-all elements in Blue to allow local extensions to be included in the main document. This could be as simple as an element structure to hold key-value pairs.

 

One question I still have is, why can't we use XSTF-style extension and have the implementations ignore extensions they don't support?

How would the alternatives posed be any easier or different?

 

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From: John M. Greacen [mailto:john@greacen.net]
Sent: Mon 6/6/2005 7:15 PM
To: 'Electronic Court Filing Technical Committeee'
Subject: [legalxml-courtfiling] Agenda items for Tuesday telephone call

We will address the following issues during tomorrow’s conference call:

 

Local extensions to the Blue schema

 

Use of the entity seal and its inclusion as a mandatory or recommended feature of the specification

 

How we handle IP policies in all incorporated standards

 

The official name for Blue – “Blue” was a provisional name assigned until we were ready to assign a version number.  Is this ECF 2.0 or ECF 3.0?

 

Whether we need to define additional messages for service

 

How Court Filing Policy will be addressed

 

Everyone with a stake in how these issues are resolved should plan to participate in the call.

 

 

John M. Greacen

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