[legalxml-courtfiling] Las Vegas meeting summary

[John Greacen <john@greacen.net>]

This summarizes the face to face meeting and the two conference calls.

 

Query & Response and Court Document 1.1 are approved as proposed standards by the COSCA/NACM Joint Technology Committee.

 

The California project is planning four deliverables:  California Court Filing 2.0, Request & Response, Policy, and CMS API. 

 

The JXDDS object oriented data dictionary schema is progressing satisfactorily, with a predicted completion date of this summer.  We do not need to do any more work on the list of roles.

 

Dr. Leff’s order of protection project will proceed as an effort of our TC with a report expected that will shed light on the requirements for forms.

 

John Messing gave a report on the first meeting of the ABA Section of Science and Technology Efiling Committee that he chairs.  The committee will not be developing standards.  It will be developing a recommendation that the exception for courts continue in the federal e signatures legislation.  The committee will be articulating the needs and perspective of the bar with respect to efiling.

 

The CMS API subcommittee recommended that it postpone further work on a common CMS API until further work is done on the architecture to support XML based efiling.  The subcommittee will be renamed the Process Models subcommittee and will prepare a statement of work for its new task before the next conference telephone call.

 

Tom Clarke asked all TC members to review and comment on the latest posting from his committee.

 

Greg Arnold gave a status report on OXCI.

 

Roger Winters enlisted Dr. Leff’s help in mastering the OASIS specification templates.

 

John Messing will be our liaison to the OASIS electronic signatures TC.  Diane Lewis will be our liaison to the E-Government TC.

 

The TC reviewed the OASIS rules on intellectual property.  No one may submit any material with a request that it be kept confidential.  Any copyrighted material submitted to the TC is considered contributed to the TC.  Patented material must be disclosed to the TC, but a submitter does not lose his patent by disclosing the material to the TC.  The TC asks that anyone disclosing patented material preface the disclosure with the fact that the matter to be disclosed is patented, so that the TC members can decide whether they want to receive the information.  The TC will not approve a specification that includes patented material.

 

The TC decided to create a new subcommittee titled “Layered Interoperability,” to be chaired by Dallas Powell.  The subcommittee will develop a layered definition of interoperability and will develop additional specifications needed for Court Filing 1.1 in the areas of messaging and security.  The subcommittee will operate on the full committee list.

 

The TC decided to call the next version of the Court Filing specification “Court Filing Blue.”  All requirements for Court Filing Blue are being submitted to Robin Gibson to be held for further consideration pending the outcome of the Process Models and Layered Interoperability Subcommittees.

 

The TC reviewed its operating procedures and agreed that specifications do not become “committee specifications” under the OASIS rules until they have been implemented and tested.

 

The TC approved the versioning rules, naming conventions and usage conventions proposed by Roger Winters and Shane Durham. 

 

 The TC adopted the following rules for its own governance:  Cochairs will serve staggered two year terms.  At the end of a term the TC will decide whether to retain the current cochair.  In the event a cochair is not retained, it will select a new cochair through nominations and an election.  The term of the private sector cochair will expire at the end of calendar year 2003 and that of the public sector cochair will expire in 2004.  The current cochairs were retained in their positions by unanimous vote of the TC.  A motion to require the cochairs to submit an annual “state of the TC report” with plans for the coming year failed for lack of a second.  The TC’s representative to the Legal XML member section will serve a one year term, subject to retention.  A selection will be made during the April face to face meeting, since the Member Section has not finally adopted its new governance model. 

 

Future meetings are scheduled for:

 

Conference call – January 7^th at 3:00pm EST

Conference call – February 4^th at 3:00 pm EST

Conference call – March 11^th  at 3:00 pm EST

Additional conference calls on the first Tuesday of May, June, August, September, and November at 3:00 pm EST

Face to face on April 17 and 18 in Atlanta, subcommittees to meet on April 16^th

Face to face in conjunction with the July 13 -19 annual meeting of NACM in Washington, DC, specific dates to be announced

Face to face prior to CTC8 in Kansas City, October 26-30, specific dates to be announced.

Face to face in early December in Las Vegas, specific dates to be announced (the NCSC will not be holding an e-courts conference next year).

 

Please send me and Dr. Leff any corrections or additions to this summary.  All actions taken at the face to face are subject to review on the list after Dr. Leff’s minutes have been posted.

 

John M. Greacen

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