Conf Calls and Agenda for February 22-23 face to face meeting

["John M. Greacen" <john@greacen.net>]

Please note that the meeting will begin at 10:00 am rather than our usual 9:00 am start on Wednesday, February 22.  The co-chairs will be meeting with CITOC at 9:00 am at the AOC across the street from the Superior Court.

 

Conference telephone calls will be held with all TC members at 7:00 pm Eastern (4:00 pm Pacific) on February 22^nd and at 6:00 pm Eastern (3:00 pm Pacific) on February 23^rd.  The call in information is

 

Date and time                Wednesday, February 22, 2006 at 4:00 pm Pacific (7:00 pm Eastern)

Call in number               1-641-297-5800

Access code                 2892164

 

Date and time                Thursday, February 23, 2006 at 3:00 pm Pacific (6:00 pm Eastern)

Call in number               1-641-297-5800

Access code                 2892164

 

 

Persons with items on the agenda who will not able to attend the meeting – Please provide a report by email to the list by Monday, February 21^st.  Thank you.

 

Electronic Court Filing Technical Committee

Face to Face Meeting

February 22-23, 2006

 

San Francisco Superior Court

400 McAllister

Room 617

San Francisco, CA 94127

 

The meeting on Wednesday will commence at 10:00 am and end at 5:00 pm.  The meeting on Thursday will commence at 8:00 am and end at 4:00 pm.

 

Tentative Agenda

 

Special order of business – Meeting with CITOC members to discuss ECF 3.0 implementation and increased court participation in the ECFTC -- 1:00 pm Thursday in the San Diego Room of the Milton Marks Conference Center (lower level off the main lobby) at the CA Administrative Office of the Courts, 455 Golden Gate Avenue, San Francisco

 

Report on meeting with CITOC and plans for Thursday afternoon session with CITOC members – John Greacen

 

Report from the Court Document Subcommittee – Rex McElrath

 

Report on the Global Messaging Standards Committee effort – Tom Clarke, Jim Cabral, or Scott Came

 

Status of ECF 3.0 implementation efforts

One Legal

eFiling.com

US CourtForms

Tybera

CourtLink

Maricopa County Superior Court

Los Angeles County

Georgia

 

Technical assistance to implementers

            Offers of volunteer help from Scott Came and Roger Winters

            Request for funded TA from the LegalXML Member Section Steering Committee

 

Definitions spreadsheet and reconciliation with NCSC IEPDs – Tom Carlson

ECF 3.0 summary for judges and administrators – Roger Winters

 

ECF 3.0 roadmap for non-technical domain experts – Terrie Bousquin

Formal mechanism for the TC to receive feedback from reviewers and implementers of ECF 3.0 – Robin Gibson

Configuration management – Don Bergeron

Separately post all schemas and other artifacts – Jim Cabral

Assignments to scope out requirements for enhancing ECF 3.0

 

n       appellate case filings – John Greacen, Rex McElrath, and John Messing

--contact has been made with Moyeddin Abdulaziz of the Arizona Court of Appeals, the Clerk of the Georgia Supreme Court, and US AOC.  John Messing will contact Gary Graham of the Arizona Supreme Court, a former active member of the TC.

 

n       lower court appeals, civil traffic, parking, and local ordinance violations – Terrie Bousquin

--she will look into how many elements are needed

 

n       administrative tribunals – John Messing 

-- John is exploring what industrial commissions in the various states have been doing in the area of electronic filing.  He will approach the Administrative Law Section of the ABA if this avenue does not bear fruit.

 

n       deeds, mortgages, liens and other real property instruments and security instruments and liens on personal property – Jeff Barlow, David Goodwin, John Messing, and Roger Winters

 

n       John Messing is an active participant in the work of two organizations with sophisticated XML standards for mortgages and land titles –  PRIA and MISMO.  They have recently released new versions of their XML specifications.  John is exploring what sort of functionality they want with court electronic filing processes.  It appears that they are more interested in interoperability than in asking us to incorporate additional functionality in ECF 3.0 to duplicate what they are already doing.

 

n       other non-case related documents (such as marriage licenses, wills, notary applications, bond authority and bond limits in trial courts and bar admissions, bar discipline, rulemaking and other activities in courts of last resort) -- Jeff Barlow, David Goodwin, John Messing, and Roger Winters

-- John Messing will inquire of David Goodwin whether Maricopa County is accepting non-case documents electronically.  Roger reported that King County is not.

 

n       primary service – James Cusick, Brian Hickman, and John Messing

 

Attraction of more court IT and domain experts to participate in the TC’s work

 

Additional items of concern to the membership

 

Next face to face meetings

            Thursday, May 11 (afternoon) and Friday, May 12 – California AOC, San Francisco

            Thursday and Friday, September 21 and 22 – New York City

Thursday and Friday, December 14 and 15 – Las Vegas (tentative – if E-Courts Conference ends at noon on Dec 13, the meeting will be on the afternoon of Wednesday, December 13 and all day Thursday, December 14)

 

John M. Greacen

Greacen Associates, LLC

HCR 78 Box 23

Regina, New Mexico 87046

505-289-2164

505-289-2163 (fax)

505-780-1450 (cell)

john@greacen.net