Minutes Draft from the OASIS Legal XML Member Section Electronic Contracts Technical Committee Secretary (File id: @@2734)

["Dr. Laurence Leff" <D-Leff@wiu.edu>]

          Minutes, Teleconference of December Twenty-First 2006
  The OASIS Legal XML Member Section eContracts Technical Committee

Present:

Dr. Zoran Milosevic
Mr. Dave Marvit
Dr. Laurence Leff
Mr. Peter Meyer
Mr. Daniel Greenwood

The meeting came to order at approximately 18:08 Eastern Time.

The TC voted to approve the Specification (with non-substantive
changes to be made by the contractor as listed below).  This ws
moved by Mr. Dave Marvit with Mr. Peter Meyer seconding.  (There
was one abstention, due to a potential conflict of interest, 
with the remainder voting in the affirmative.)

Mr. Peter Meyer and Dr. Milosevic will "wordsmith" the abstract and
forward new wording to the contractor.

List Item Nine in the "Feature Summary for the eContracts Schema" 
will be deleted.

Example Five, which consisted of a contract root element, including
name spaces, a title, and an empty body, will be removed.

Mr. Peter Meyer will also review the list of changes requested earlier
to see which ones might have inadvertently been missed and send
an appropriate communication to the contractor.

The TC also dicussed the "narrative descriptions in the language reference"
and whether they should be removed.  In the description of each
element, these follow the Relax NG description.  (For example,
"contract-front" has text that begins:
contract-front::=
* Sequence of
  * Choice of
     * Sequence of
       * Zero or more date-block
       * One parties)

One member expressed concern about possible errors in these narrative
descriptions.  It was decided to leave them in there to see if the review
caught additional errors.  We may revisit the issue in sixty days.

Dr. Laurence Leff, as TC secretary, will help coordinate the process with
Ms. Mary  McRae, Manager of Technical Committee Administration. 
This includes sending her a pointer to the XML File for
the specification as edited above as well as the minutes of this meeting.
There was some discussion of the process.
In particular, he will schedule a TC meeting at our
regular time on Thursdays (New York Time) when it would be appropriate
to have another vote.  There was also a brief discussion of having a
meeting using a video-service for the final vote making this a Committee
standard.

Mr. Daniel Greenwood, the Chairperson, recognized that this is the first
Legal XML Member Section to get so far in the process of producing
an TC Specification under the OASIS process.  He recognized the high 
quality and value of what was accomplished, as well as the work that everyone 
contributed.

The meeting adjourned at 19:01 New York City time.