FW: [legalxml-courtfiling] Input on Blue Requirements Draft

["Bergeron, Donald L. (LNG-DAY)" <Donald.Bergeron@lexisnexis.com>]

Forwarding to requirements review point.



Regards,

Don

Donald L. Bergeron
Systems Designer
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-----Original Message-----
From: Roger.Winters@METROKC.GOV [mailto:Roger.Winters@METROKC.GOV] 
Sent: Saturday, April 09, 2005 10:23 AM
To: legalxml-courtfiling@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: [legalxml-courtfiling] Input on Blue Requirements Draft

Before departing for a week's vacation, I want to share my ongoing concern
that much of the terminology we have beeen using (docket, filing, and even
court and clerk) is inherently confusing because of multiple meanings in
use.

"Docket" is a good example. I have no clear idea of what it might mean
except by reference to some prescribed definition ("We shall use 'docketing'
to mean X and only X."). There is no "standard" meaning for "docket" or
"docketing" in the court filing community (all those associated in any way
with submitting documents to courts for the official record). Defining how
we mean to use the term doesn't overcome that. The trouble is that most
readers will place their own definition of the word into our document even
though we stipulate a definition. 

As we progress toward developing a specification, I will work on this
problem to the best of my ability. In the meantime, what is important is for
us to describe with specificity what we mean such words to stand for. Taking
a term with multiple meanings and using it in a vague way will not serve our
purposes (not to say that's what we've done).  Anyone, whatever the
predominant meaning of "docket" in their own realm (calendar, index
information, list of cases, list of documents in cases, the act of data
entry, the "do list" for the court or judge, etc.), needs to be able to
understand - without continuing to flip back to the Glossary - what Blue is
referring to. 

That's my 2-cents. 

Thank you to all who have put such time and energy into building this work
product. I believe it is a good foundation on which the specification can
now be built.

Roger Winters
Editor