Official Transmission of Minutes from the OASIS Legal XML Member Section Court Filing Technical Committee Secretary

["Dr. Laurence Leff" <D-Leff@wiu.edu>]

                Minutes Teleconference of March 11 2003
The OASIS Legal XML Member Section Electronic Court Filing Technical Committee

Present

Mohyeddin Abdulaziz
John Aerts
Donald Bergeron
Ronald Bowmaster
Terry Bousquin
Jim Cabral
Rolly Chambers
Tom Clarke
Dwight Daniels
Shane Durham
Charles Gilliam
Robin Gibson
John Greacen
Catherine Krause
Allen Jensen
Catherine Krause
Laurence Leff, Ph.D.
Diane Lewis
John Messing
Dallas Powell
John Ruegg
Christopher Smith
Tom Smith
Khaleel Thotti
Roger Winters

John Greacen called the official Teleconference to order at 15:05 EST.  He 
briefly discussed OASIS's new software for handling the Technical Committee 
membership and web pages.

Mr. Dwight Daniels reported on the new EFiling Process Models subcommittee.
They hope to prepare a template for information from various sites with
completion by the end of the month.
Mr. Abdulaziz will report based on his work from Arizona. 
Ms. Krause and Mr. Winters from Washington  will develop a process model
derived from the standards for Electronic Filing Processes (Technical
and Business Approaches).
Their next conference call is April 3rd (12-1 Pacific, 3-4 Eastern)

Dallas Powell gave the report on the Interoperability Committee.  They will
be working with multiple layers, recognizing that some issues were not
addressed in Court Filing 1.1.  They want to collect information from other
projects, and come up with a method for communicating the information
consistently.  The Technical Committee will need to decide if they wish to
force a particular communication standard such as SOAP or ebXML.
The Statement Of Work is being exchanged with Mr. Roger Winters for
editing and will be posted shortly with a one-week comment period.
A question was raised whether the committee will come up with "patches" for
1.1 before Court Filing Blue.  Mr. Powell said that the Utah effort
came up with patches for credit card processing and digital signatures.
However, the project in Texas handled this differently--some proposals
may be made.

Tom Clarke's report on the Certification Subcommittee was read by the
Chairperson, John Greacen.  They had received no comment on the Requirements
document.  They are ready to proceed but will not do so until Court
Filing Blue is done.

Next was a report on OXCI.  The State of Georgia will put out the Request
for Proposal for the OXCI middleware.  The Technical Committee's list
also saw the document giving the Design Decisions from the Request
for Proposal.  In particular, OXCI will have a basic Court Policy and
will use XML Schema.  Also, they are using SOAP with Attachments and
W3C signatures or ebXML.  Either would be sufficient, but this may
be discussed.  They also proposed some changes to the Legal XML envelope,
particulary due to overlap with ebXML.  The discussion also includes
web services protocols using WFDSL and UDDI registry.
These issues may be reviewed at the Atlanta Face to Face.

The next report was on the 2GEFS California project.  
They are resolving some licensing agreemnts and working on requirements.
They anticipate specifications by July or end of
August.  They also  hope to post something to the observer list.

There was a discussion of a presentation on "Legal XML and Efiling California
Style" at Legal Works to be moderated by Jim Keane.

The next face-to-face for the Technical Committee will be on April 17th
and April 18th.  On April 16th, the Efiling Process Models Subcommittee
will meet from 13:00 to 14:45 Eastern and the Layered Interoperability
SubCommiteee will meet from 15:15 to 17:00 Eastern.  The Secretary will
request meeting space from our conference hosts.  The Secretary will
also forward information on the hotel arrangements to the webmaster.
It was decided that the July face-to-face will be held July 18th and
19th with committee meetings on Thursday afternoon and evening.

It is also anticipated that the 2004 Spring meeting will be held March
23rd and March 24th in conjunction with the American Bar Association
LegalTech.  The Secretary will confirm the times for that and make the
necessary room reservations.