30-day Public Review for Electronic Court Filing Version 4.01

[Robin Cover <robin@oasis-open.org>]

To OASIS Members, Public Announce Lists:

The OASIS LegalXML Electronic Court Filing TC members have
recently approved a Committee Specification Draft (CSD)
and submitted this specification for 30-day public review:

Committee Specification Draft 01 /
Public Review Draft 01
08 February 2011

Overview: This document defines the LegalXML Electronic Court
Filing 4.01 (ECF 4.0) specification, which consists of a set
of non-proprietary XML and Web services specifications,
along with clarifying explanations and amendments to those
specifications, that have been added for the purpose of
promoting interoperability among electronic court filing
vendors and systems. ECF Version 4.01 is a maintenance
release to address several minor schema and definition issues
identified by implementers of the ECF 4.0 specification.

This OASIS Technical Committee was chartered to will develop
specifications for the use of XML to create legal documents
and to transmit legal documents from an attorney, party or
self-represented litigant to a court, from a court to an
attorney, party or self-represented litigant or to another
court, and from an attorney or other user to another attorney
or other user of legal documents.

Public Review Period: The public review starts today,
26 February 2011 and ends 28 March 2011.

This is an open invitation to comment. OASIS solicits
feedback from potential users, developers and others,
whether OASIS members or not, for the sake of improving
the interoperability and quality of its technical work.

URIs: The prose specification document and related files
are available here:

Editable Source (Authoritative): 
http://docs.oasis-open.org/legalxml-courtfiling/specs/ecf/v4.01/ecf-v4.01-spec/csprd01/ecf-v4.01-spec-csprd01.doc
HTML:
http://docs.oasis-open.org/legalxml-courtfiling/specs/ecf/v4.01/ecf-v4.01-spec/csprd01/ecf-v4.01-spec-csprd01.html
PDF:
http://docs.oasis-open.org/legalxml-courtfiling/specs/ecf/v4.01/ecf-v4.01-spec/csprd01/ecf-v4.01-spec-csprd01.pdf

XML Schemas:
http://docs.oasis-open.org/legalxml-courtfiling/specs/ecf/v4.01/ecf-v4.01-spec/csprd01/xsd/

Other specification artifacts:
http://docs.oasis-open.org/legalxml-courtfiling/specs/ecf/v4.01/ecf-v4.01-spec/csprd01/

Additional information about the specification and the
OASIS LegalXML Electronic Court Filing TC may be found
at the TC's public home page:

http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/legalxml-courtfiling/

Comments may be submitted to the TC by any person through the use
of the OASIS TC Comment Facility which can be located via the
button labeled "Send A Comment" at the top of the TC public home
page, or directly at:

http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/comments/form.php?wg_abbrev=legalxml-courtfiling

Comments submitted by TC non-members for this work and for other
work of this TC are publicly archived and can be viewed at:

http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/legalxml-courtfiling-comment/

All comments submitted to OASIS are subject to the OASIS Feedback
License, which ensures that the feedback you provide carries the
same obligations at least as the obligations of the TC members. In
connection with this public review of 'Electronic Court Filing
Version 4.01', we call your attention to the OASIS IPR Policy [2]
applicable especially [3] to the work of this technical committee.
All members of the TC should be familiar with this document, which
may create obligations regarding the disclosure and availability
of a member's patent, copyright, trademark and license rights that
read on an approved OASIS specification. OASIS invites any persons
who know of any such claims to disclose these if they may be
essential to the implementation of the above specification, so that
notice of them may be posted to the notice page for this TC's work.

- rcc

Robin Cover
Interim TC Administrator
OASIS, Director of Information Services
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========== Additional references:

[1] OASIS LegalXML Electronic Court Filing TC
     http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/legalxml-courtfiling/

[2] http://www.oasis-open.org/who/intellectualproperty.php

[3] http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/legalxml-courtfiling/ipr.php
     http://www.oasis-open.org/who/intellectualproperty.php#s10.2.3
     RF on Limited Terms Mode IPR Mode