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Subject: draft minutes of last part of today's conference call
Hi I was asked to take notes after Dr Leff excused himself from the meeting. These follow (comments/amendments welcome) ... cheers, Jason -- Jason Harrop CTO, SPEEDLEGAL jharrop@speedlegal.com SmartPrecedent(R) software The most intelligent way to create documents www.speedlegal.com -------------------------------------------------------------------- Jason walked the participants through the template for an information item, as found in the latest draft of the Enterprise Contract Scenario, posted earlier this week. It was agreed [ed - subject to suggestions made later being incorporated] that the template for capturing an information item will be used in each scenario. Sergio and Barry intend to work on the information items required in the Enterprise Contract Management scenario. Zoran, Rolly, Jim Keane and Dan are going to work on dispute resolution. [ed - some of what follows may have been from earlier in the call] This will be done in such a way that it can be provided to the ODR TC. It will be applicable to construction contracts, software licence agreements, and other types of contracts. This work may constitute a new Scenario, or it may be a contribution to the existing Dispute Resolution scenario. Dan will lead this work; Rolly (or was it Jim?) will provide sample clauses from construction contracts. Dr Leff, John Messing and Dan will work on the Click-Through Scenario. Dr Leff is to lead this work. In order to understand some of the issues which are likely to arise in filling out the template for any given information item, we looked at the "Contract Term" item as an example. - we changed its name to "Contract Period or Duration", in part to avoid confusion between Contract Term, and a term of a contract. Some debate as to which of "period" and "duration" is preferable. - Sergio noted that the concept of commencement and duration is also relevant at the level of an individual term (ie clause) of a contract, since obligations might commence and cease at different times. - we changed this item to "Optional", given that a contract may be silent as to duration (in which case the law will imply a reasonable time) (Rolly) - where the contract is silent as to duration, this information item could have a value of "open" or "unspecified", since it is useful to be able to search for such contracts. - "management of a contract" as a reason for capturing this item, was seen as perhaps to broad a rationale to be useful. More detail was suggested, one example being the time based events commencement and expiration can triggger. Discussion flowed over to the "Contract Event" information item. Rolly noted that the significance of a Contract Event is that when one occurs, there is a "state change" which affects the parties. Jim Keane [ed - or John Messing?] noted that there are different concepts of type, including a fixed point in time (a date), and an interval/duration. W3C XML Schema has a data type for representing duration. It was agreed that two extra fields would be added to the template for an information item: 1. "See Also", which is hyperlinks to information items related to this one. 2. "Example Clauses/Articles", which is a place to put the text (or a hyperlink to the text) of clauses which contain the information, along with any commentary or notes the author wishes to add. Jason to post a revised version of the Enterprise Contract Management Scenario containing these extra fields. It was agreed that HTML should be the format we continue to use for the scenarios as we add information items to them. [ed - we didn't have time to talk more specifically about the time line for completion of this work, except to say ..] The agenda for the next teleconference will include discussion of information items authored over the next fortnight. On the Structural Markup front, the agneda will include choosing between recursive and hierarchical clause models. The possible face to face meeting times/places contained in the agenda were discussed very briefly and inconclusively. The possibility of ABA in San Francisco, in August, was also suggested. The importance of organising a room soon was noted, if ABA is to be our choice. Next 2 teleconferences as per minutes of 12 March teleconference, namely: April 9th 16:00 Eastern, 21:00 GMT April 23rd 16:00 Eastern, 21:00 GMT Meeting closed.
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