[tc-announce] OASIS announcement of LegalXML discussion lists

["Karl F. Best" <karl.best@oasis-open.org>]

Upon the request by eligible participants I have created two additional
OASIS Discussion Lists whose purpose is to discuss the creation of OASIS
Technical Committees in the LegalXML member section. Discussion on the
lists will begin in seven days to give everyone a chance to subscribe,
and each list and its archive will be deleted after 90 days. The lists
are

legalxml-enotary-discuss@lists.oasis-open.org
legalxml-legislative-discuss@lists.oasis-open.org

Descriptions of the two lists are below.

In order to participate in the discussions on these topics you should
subscribe to the discussion lists using the subscription form at
http://lists.oasis-open.org/ob/adm.pl or by sending a message to

legalxml-enotary-discuss-request@lists.oasis-open.org
legalxml-legislative-discuss-request@lists.oasis-open.org

with the word "subscribe" as the body of the message. OASIS membership
is not required in order to subscribe to this list. If you do not wish
to subscribe but wish to view the discussion you may view the list
archives at http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/

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Electronic Notarization
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(i) The requested name for the discussion list is "eNotarization TC
formation"

(ii) The scope of this discussion list is to explore the formation of an
Electronic Notarization Technical Committee under the LegalXML Member
Section of OASIS-OPEN, which would develop encryption-based technology
standards for the creation and sharing of self-authenticating legal
documents on the Internet, both within and between legal entities and/or
individuals.

While electronic signatures concern primarily legally binding
transactions in electronic commerce, the notarization technical
committee will focus on self-proving legal information of various types
in environments which rely wholly or partially upon automated machine
processes. The purpose of this committee is to develop an agreed set of
technical requirements to govern self-proving legal information, crafted
with particular attention to the historic policies and underlying legal
doctrines governing admissible and inadmissible evidence in legal
proceedings; the needs of legal
documents suitable for real estate acquisitions and sales; wills and
estates; affidavits and interstate judgments and court orders; and
related administrative documents such as automobile documents of title;
and to determine the suitability of such existing or emerging standards
as the W3C/IETF dsig to the requirements identified by the committee; to
abstract the common needs for self-authenticating legal information on
the Internet from both Anglo-American and civil law jurisprudence; to
put into context the historic requirement of signature affixation in the
physical presence of the notary traditional in the paper world; and to
produce a final technical specification tailored to legal requirements
which works in conjunction with other existing and emerging technical
standards, particularly those being developed within the LegalXML
initiative."

(iii) The three persons eligible for OASIS Technical Committee
Participation making this request are:

John Messing (jmessing@LAW-ON-LINE.COM) OASIS individual member
Daniel J. Greenwood (dang@mit.edu) OASIS individual member
Rolly L. Chambers (rlchambers@justice.com) OASIS individual member

(iv)  The discussion list leader will be John Messing

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Legislative Information
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(i) The requested name for the discussion list is "Legislative
Information TC formation"

(ii) The scope of this discussion list is to explore the formation of a
Legislative Information Technical Committee under the LegalXML Member
Section of OASIS-OPEN, which would develop standards for the publication
of and citation to legislative branch documents in XML. This TC would
build from the work done previously in LegalXML, Inc, including at a
joint U.S. Congressional and LegalXML public meeting on this topic.

(iii) The three persons eligible for OASIS Technical Committee
Participation making this request are:

Daniel Bennett (daniel@citizencontact.com) OASIS individual member
Daniel J. Greenwood (dang@mit.edu) OASIS individual member
Rolly L. Chambers (rlchambers@justice.com) OASIS individual member

(iv) The discussion list leader will be Daniel Bennett




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Karl F. Best
OASIS - Director, Technical Operations
+1 978.667.5115 x206
karl.best@oasis-open.org  http://www.oasis-open.org