Good Day Everyone,
First, please accept my apologies for my silence over the last several weeks. I have to be 100% honest, in that I was so taken aback by the email delivered to the LegalXML Steering Committee regarding the board's decision to freeze our budget that I needed some time to digest the situation. For all of us, balancing our everyday workloads with volunteering to serve on OASIS committees is difficult, even more so amid disappointing news.
That said, I think we've all seen by example through the responses to that initial email announcing the budget freeze, and in the more recent discussion following the Stanford event, that there is significant interest among the member section in keeping the section alive, and in moving forward with developing LegalXML standards. Monica and Jim have shared several good ideas regarding possible future areas where TC's could be formed, including:
- Electronic Discovery
- Global Justice Reference Architecture (JRA) specifications (based on NIEM and the OASIS SOA-RM)
- Implementation and enforcement of privacy policies (based on the XACML and the Global Privacy Technology Framework specification)
- LegalRuleML, in conjuntion probably with a more large initative called PolicyRuleML, focused to model rules inside of the legal documents for supporting business, check compliance, payment security, online services, privacy, connection with other XML standards (also in OASIS) oriented to the business and administrative processes
- Open Legal Data, in conjuntion probably with TGF, for supporting the reusability of the legal data and in the meantime to guarantee the peculiarity of legal domain (e.g. legal knowledge, meaning of the references, authoritativeness, legality, preservation over the time, etc.) according with Tim Bernard Lee (TED2009 and TED2010) and Obama (2009 Directives) goals
- ParliamentXML is another potential issues to investigate, also Obama administration started to use XML for the bill and for GPO, as well as the European Parliament and the United Nations (eParliament world conference).
Additionally, the ECF TC has more work to do including (shared by Jim Harris):
- For the remainder of 2010 and into 2011, the ECF TC will continue TA and outreach activities to promote adoption of the ECF specifications for electronic court filing implementations,
- In 2011, the ECF TC is planning a face-to-face meeting for work on updates to the specification (including minor corrections and updates based on feedback received from implementations; and maybe also mapping changes to utilize elements in the new family domain of NIEM 2.1). TA and outreach activities will also continue throughout 2011.
- Though precise timing is not yet determined, we are expecting NIEM 3.0 to be released in 18 to 24 months (probably sometime in 2012). This new version of NIEM is expected to include significant changes that will require a major version release of ECF.
So, to continue this discussion, and hopefully arrive at a solution, and as indicated by the email Robin Gibson just sent out ... we are proposing a joint conference call of the LegalXML Member Section, Steering Committee, and the Electronic Court Filing Technical Committee. Please indicate your availability at the link below.
Thanks so much for everyone's patience and understanding. I look forward to continuing our work on LegalXML.
George W. Knecht
PC Intellect LLC
602.380.8049
On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 9:23 AM, monica.palmirani
<monica.palmirani@unibo.it> wrote:
Dear all,
I am really new in the LegalXML but I see several possible new
topics that arise from Stanford and from RuleML events about the
future of LegalXML:
- LegalRuleML, in conjuntion probably with a more large initative
called PolicyRuleML, focused to model rules inside of the legal
documents for supporting business, check compliance, payment
security, online services, privacy, connection with other XML
standards (also in OASIS) oriented to the business and
administrative processes
- Open Legal Data, in conjuntion probably with TGF, for supporting
the reusability of the legal data and in the meantime to guarantee
the peculiarity of legal domain (e.g. legal knowledge, meaning of
the references, authoritativeness, legality, preservation over the
time, etc.) according with Tim Bernard Lee (TED2009 and TED2010) and
Obama (2009 Directives) goals
- ParliamentXML is another potential issues to investigate, also
Obama administration started to use XML for the bill and for GPO, as
well as the European Parliament and the United Nations (eParliament
world conference).
#1 Stakeholders: to involve is really the principal critical issue,
#2 Arrive as soon as possible to delivery OASIS standards in the TCs
for improving visibility and trustiness
#3 and third to involve industry in developping tools.
Yours,
Monica
Il 22/11/2010 19:10, James E Cabral ha scritto:
Dee,
I enjoyed the opportunity at Stanford to chat
with you about the future of LegalXML. Like you, I am
hopeful that LegalXML can identify future opportunities.
The ECF TC will hopefully be discussing future standards
development during our meetings this month and next.
Outside of the ECF TC, some ideas of potential standards
that LegalXML might explore include:
1. Electronic discovery
2. Global Justice Reference Architecture (JRA)
specifications (based on NIEM and the OASIS SOA-RM)
3. Implementation and enforcement of privacy
policies (based on the XACML and the Global Privacy
Technology Framework specification)
I think collaboration with the ABA would be key
to #1. The key people to work with on #2 and #3 are the
Global Infrastructure Standards Working Group and the Global
Security Working Group. For more information on each
committee, see http://it.ojp.gov. MTG is
represented on both committees so I would be happy to make
any introductions if needed. On the LegalXML side, the
discussion with Global should probably be led by members of
the Steering Committee, right?
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Hello StC,
The Stanford
panel was very impressive, it was not as well attended as
I’d hoped but I will be getting the video to post to the
OASIS web site. Jim and Monica, could you possibly write a
short report with recommendations for going forward – the
OASIS Board is anxious to understand our future direction.
Jane is in
conversation with NIEM for the NIEM Training Event that is
coming up in August. Can we clearly articulate activities
that we might be able to present at that event that will
help to define new work. Could we possibly pull off an
eCourt filing demo and presentation?
Jim,
Can you contact
the folks at DOJ that we discussed – sorry, refresh my
memory in terms of your suggestions for working with their
standardization effort – possibly joint presentations. Jane
has a very good relationship with Donna Roy, so I think she
would be willing to hear our proposals.
I think we need
to go to the BOARD with a very tight plan and get approval
to use MS funds to support our effort at NIEM. Please
respond ASAP.
Cheers,
Dee
PS Jim and Monica
it was really my pleasure to get to know you both better.
Dee
Schur, Senior Manager - Standards Advocate
OASIS: Advancing open standards for the information society
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