Re: [legalcite-markup-discuss] Jurisdictional scope

[Chet Ensign <chet.ensign@oasis-open.org>]

Hi Frank, 

"Is the establishment (and maintenance) of canonical lists

for these two (for the latter, at least for the US jurisdiction,
initially) within the scope of the proposal?" 

That's a good question - and one that we ought to consider as we move towards better defining the scope of the work. 

Speaking for myself, I think the current consensus is that we ought to make the development of such canonical lists possible and provide a framework for how they could be done - but not take on the creation and maintenance ourselves. But perhaps others would see that differently. 

Certainly something that needs added thought as part of developing the charter. 

Best, 

/chet  

On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 8:33 AM, Frank Bennett <biercenator@gmail.com> wrote:

Patrick raises an important point about jurisdictional scope. From his
note to another thread:

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Link: https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/legalcite-markup-discuss/201309/msg00004.html

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I think that it is important to keep world-wide scope in view, while
acknowledging both that we can't get there in one go, and that it will
be an ever-receding target (which does not conflict with Patrick's
point, as I understand it).

This got me to thinking, and I have a couple of questions. For
world-wide (and historical) coverage, we would need a set of concrete
jurisdiction specifiers, such as contemplated by the LEX:URN draft.
Also, within a given jurisdiction there is a finite number of
reporters/sources for primary legal text, with local conventions for
their abbreviation in citations. Both of these (jurisdiction
identifiers and journal abbreviations) are areas where there is a fair
amount of variance across projects, and a good deal of chaos out in
the wild. Is the establishment (and maintenance) of canonical lists
for these two (for the latter, at least for the US jurisdiction,
initially) within the scope of the proposal?

Frank

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