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Subject: [announce] New Standards for Legal Information Exchange Underway atOASIS LegalXML


New Standards for Legal Information Exchange Underway at OASIS LegalXML

Consortium Forms Technical Committees to Address Standards for
Integrated Justice, eNotarization, eContracts, Electronic Court
Filing,Legislative Documents, and Transcripts.

Boston, MA, USA; 25 September 2002 -- Legal and technical communities
unite as OASIS, the XML interoperability consortium, forms six new
LegalXML committees to create standards for the electronic exchange of
legal data. Backed by government agencies, lawyers, and vendors, the new
working groups include:

  - OASIS LegalXML Integrated Justice Technical Committee, which will
design XML specifications for exchanging data among justice system
branches and agencies;

  - OASIS LegalXML eNotarization Technical Committee, which will develop
an agreed set of technical requirements to govern self-proving
electronic legal information;

  - OASIS LegalXML eContracts Technical Committee, which will advance
XML standards to enable the efficient creation, maintenance, management,
exchange and publication of contract documents and terms;

  - OASIS LegalXML Electronic Court Filing Technical Committee, which
will develop specifications for the use of XML to create legal documents
and to transmit legal documents between attorneys, litigants, courts,
and other users of legal documents; and

  - OASIS LegalXML Transcripts Technical Committee, which will design an
XML-compliant syntax for representing legal transcript documents.

"As part of OASIS, LegalXML has increased the rate of creation of
requirements and specification drafts that will become OASIS LegalXML
Standards. The Court Filing standard is undergoing interoperability
testing, which has lead to the refinement of the interoperabity
definition and standardization of the process," said Don Bergeron of
LexisNexis, chair of the OASIS LegalXML Steering Committee. "LegalXML
technical committees are developing the requirements, specifications,
data models, data dictionaries, and proposed standards that are
necessary for the electronic exchange of legal information. OASIS
LegalXML will continue to listen to the needs and concerns of the legal
community to ensure our standards remain both efficient and effective."

"These new OASIS LegalXML technical committees are a testament to the
energy and momentum that is building for LegalXML," said Patrick Gannon,
president and CEO of OASIS. "It is significant to note that although the
OASIS intellectual property policy allows both Royalty-Free (RF) and
Reasonable and Non-Discriminatory (RAND) licensing, LegalXML technical
committees have all decided to provide their work to the public on an RF
basis."

Participation in the LegalXML remains open to all organizations and
individuals. OASIS hosts open mail lists for comment on the work of each
technical committee, and completed specifications will be freely
available to the public without licensing or other fees. Information on
joining OASIS can be found on http://www.oasis-open.org/join.


About LegalXML

LegalXML brings legal and technical experts together to create standards
for the electronic exchange of legal data. LegalXML operates as a member
section within OASIS, the not-for-profit, global consortium that drives
the development, convergence and adoption of e-business standards.
Members themselves set the LegalXML agenda, using the open OASIS
technical process expressly designed to promote industry consensus and
unite disparate efforts. LegalXML produces standards for electronic
court filing, court documents, legal citations, transcripts, criminal
justice intelligence systems, and others. http://www.legalxml.org/



For more information:
Carol Geyer
Director of Communications
OASIS www.oasis-open.org
carol.geyer@oasis-open.org
+1.978.667.5115 x209





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