RE: [legalxml-courtfiling] Las Vegas meeting summary

["Lewis, Diane" <Diane.Lewis@usdoj.gov>]

Thanks for the update...  the summary reflects a productive and informative meeting...sorry i missed it.  

Does "Court Filing Blue" include Court Document 2.0?  Also my impression is that the subcommittee for repository is in the "freezer" as of Boston face to face meeting.... 

at the XML Conference  content management is the buzzword ... i will provide more notes on this later diane 

-----Original Message-----
From: John Greacen [mailto:john@greacen.net]
Sent: Monday, December 16, 2002 12:20 PM
To: 'Electronic Court Filing Technical Committeee'
Subject: [legalxml-courtfiling] Las Vegas meeting summary


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 7th at 3:00pm EST

Conference call - February 4th at 3:00 pm EST

Conference call - March 11th  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 16th

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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