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Comment from: kelly.ray@us.pwc.com

I finally got a chance last night to catch-up on the email exchanges for 
eContracts last night.

I noted with interest Dr. Leff's comment that the use cases do not include 
an accounting system use case. 

I somewhat juxtapose this comment with the exchanges about the degree of 
involvement and need to develop semantic mark-up.

It would be my suggestion that we consider what other schemas or 
taxonomies could be leveraged for payload.  Specifically, I think we 
should consider leveraging elements from the XBRL taxonomy in at least the 
Contracts Management and the Contracts Development use cases for some of 
the metadata tagging as this would be an ideal way of pushing back the 
transparency and normalization benefits of XBRL into the systems creating 
and managing source data.

I have asked one of our XBRL experts to consider whether there is a 
separate use case as thought by Dr. Leff or whether there is a use case 
modification we might propose.   Unfortunately, I only got my request out 
to him at about 1:30 this morning.  I don't know if we'll have anything to 
you in time for this afternoon, but you might consider adding a discussion 
point for an upcoming agenda.