Tom and Scott – This is all news to
me. I have been under the
impression, from the earliest days of the TC, that our XML specifications have
to include the information needed by courts to initiate new cases, in all case
types. That is information that
needs to come in XML so that it is available directly to the court (or the
Filing Review MDE) for creation of the case opening information for filing of
complaints, petitions, informations, and indictments that create new cases. If the data is not there, the court
cannot file these documents. Going
down into another layer of the message structure to find this information –
where according to Scott it would not necessarily be in XML at all –
seems to me to create problems for implementers.
I read the Court Filing Blue requirements
document to be consistent with my prior understanding that this information is
included within the Blue specification and schema. I guess this shows that there are
problems with the requirements documents if we three can read it and come to
such different expectations about this important part of the efiling process. When we discussed the issue in – when I
took on responsibility for collecting this information – no one suggested
that it was out of scope for Blue. When I collected the data from multiple
sources, several of whom are TC members (including Dallas, Robin, Roger, and
Jim Harris), no one suggested that it was outside the scope of Blue.
I am open to discussion of this issue, and
am willing to consider alternative approaches. But the matter requires discussion on the
list.
Dallas, Shane, Don, Jim Beard, Shogan
Naidoo, Robert DePhillips and other implementers – do we need to include
this information in Court Filing Blue or can we create a structure that posits
its appearance in some part of the Court Filing Blue message that is not
defined in Blue?
I will make sure that this issue is on the
face to
face agenda. But I would appreciate
some discussion on the list prior to the meeting.
I was under the same impression as
Scott. Typically, the minimum case initiation and document indexing
elements are restricted to somewhere around 10 to 15 data elements. The
rest go into the appropriate IEP. At least that is the strategy assumed
by Global and the GJXDM folks.