This summarizes the face to face meeting and the two
conference calls.
Query & Response and Court Document 1.1 are approved as
proposed standards by the COSCA/NACM Joint Technology Committee.
The California project is
planning four deliverables: California Court Filing 2.0, Request &
Response, Policy, and CMS API.
The JXDDS object oriented data dictionary schema is
progressing satisfactorily, with a predicted completion date of this
summer. We do not need to do any more work on the list of roles.
Dr. Leff’s order of protection project will proceed as
an effort of our TC with a report expected that will shed light on the requirements
for forms.
John Messing gave a report on the first meeting of the ABA
Section of Science and Technology Efiling Committee that he chairs. The
committee will not be developing standards. It will be developing a recommendation
that the exception for courts continue in the federal e signatures
legislation. The committee will be articulating the needs and perspective
of the bar with respect to efiling.
The CMS API subcommittee recommended that it postpone
further work on a common CMS API until further work is done on the architecture
to support XML based efiling. The subcommittee will be renamed the
Process Models subcommittee and will prepare a statement of work for its new
task before the next conference telephone call.
Tom Clarke asked all TC members to review and comment on the
latest posting from his committee.
Greg Arnold gave a status report on OXCI.
Roger Winters enlisted Dr. Leff’s help in mastering
the OASIS specification templates.
John Messing will be our liaison to the OASIS electronic
signatures TC. Diane Lewis will be our liaison to the E-Government TC.
The TC reviewed the OASIS rules on intellectual
property. No one may submit any material with a request that it be kept
confidential. Any copyrighted material submitted to the TC is considered
contributed to the TC. Patented material must be disclosed to the TC, but
a submitter does not lose his patent by disclosing the material to the
TC. The TC asks that anyone disclosing patented material preface the
disclosure with the fact that the matter to be disclosed is patented, so that
the TC members can decide whether they want to receive the information.
The TC will not approve a specification that includes patented material.
The TC decided to create a new subcommittee titled “Layered
Interoperability,” to be chaired by Dallas Powell. The subcommittee
will develop a layered definition of interoperability and will develop additional
specifications needed for Court Filing 1.1 in the areas of messaging and
security. The subcommittee will operate on the full committee list.
The TC decided to call the next version of the Court Filing specification
“Court Filing Blue.” All requirements for Court Filing Blue
are being submitted to Robin Gibson to be held for further consideration
pending the outcome of the Process Models and Layered Interoperability
Subcommittees.
The TC reviewed its operating procedures and agreed that
specifications do not become “committee specifications” under the
OASIS rules until they have been implemented and tested.
The TC approved the versioning rules, naming conventions and
usage conventions proposed by Roger Winters and Shane Durham.
The TC adopted the following rules for its own
governance: Cochairs will serve staggered two year terms. At the
end of a term the TC will decide whether to retain the current cochair.
In the event a cochair is not retained, it will select a new cochair through
nominations and an election. The term of the private sector cochair will
expire at the end of calendar year 2003 and that of the public sector cochair
will expire in 2004. The current cochairs were retained in their
positions by unanimous vote of the TC. A motion to require the cochairs
to submit an annual “state of the TC report” with plans for the
coming year failed for lack of a second. The TC’s representative to
the Legal XML member section will serve a one year term, subject to
retention. A selection will be made during the April face to face meeting,
since the Member Section has not finally adopted its new governance model.
Future meetings are scheduled for:
Conference call – January 7th at 3:00pm EST
Conference call – February 4th at 3:00 pm EST
Conference call – March 11th at 3:00 pm EST
Additional conference calls on the first Tuesday of May,
June, August, September, and November at 3:00 pm EST
Face to face on April 17 and 18 in Atlanta,
subcommittees to meet on April 16th
Face to face in conjunction with the July 13 -19 annual
meeting of NACM in Washington, DC, specific
dates to be announced
Face to face prior to CTC8 in Kansas City, October
26-30, specific dates to be announced.
Face to face in early December in Las Vegas, specific
dates to be announced (the NCSC will not be holding an e-courts conference next
year).
Please send me and Dr. Leff any corrections or additions to
this summary. All actions taken at the face to face are subject to review
on the list after Dr. Leff’s minutes have been posted.
John M. Greacen
Greacen Associates, LLC
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Regina, New Mexico 87046
505-289-2164
505-780-1450 (cell)