RE: [courtfiling-cert] Court Filing 1.1 vendor compliance proposal

Title: Message

I 
agree with the suggested approach, with the addition that if the "comments in 
reaction" that the TC posts are clearly in opposition to the claims of the 
vendor, that the vendor not be permitted to make such claims.  This is not 
saying that the TC would officially approve the claim, for the reason described 
below.  But, somehow there should be a mechanism so that the act of 
reporting to the TC and allowing the TC to post comments does not result in a 
vendor whose implementation clearly has made major modifications to a Court 
Filing 1.1 standard that were not needed or justified in the the opinion of TC 
members does not still get to make claims regarding Court Filing 1.1 
implementation.  I believe active TC members who have Court Filing 1.1 
implementations would be able to meet this criteria.

 

Catherine Krause

E-Filing Project Manager

King County Department of Judicial 
Administration

(206)296-7860



 

  

  
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Subject: [courtfiling-cert] 
  Court Filing 1.1 vendor compliance proposal

  

  
Subcommittee 
  members,

  
 

  
The TC is proposing that vendors 
  may claim to have implemented the Court Filing 1.1 standard if they report to 
  the TC how they implemented the standard and permit the TC to post comments in 
  reaction.  The TC will not officially approve or disapprove the claim, 
  based on arguments of technical correctness, since the 1.1 standard is too 
  vague and incomplete to enforce that approach.

  
 

  
Given the proposal of this 
  subcommittee for certification, that stance is appropriate,.  Nothing 
  short of an open source reference implementation and a formal test suite is 
  sufficient to claim formal compliance, if the philosophy of our proposed 
  certification requirements is adopted.  That position implies a 
  non-ambiguous and functionally complete (or formally segmented) set of 
  standards that enables the test suite to produce a clear yes-or-no 
  result.

  
 

  
John Greacen has asked 
  for our feedback on this issue prior to the TC conference call next 
  Tuesday.  Please respond before then if possible and I will try to fairly 
  summarize the comments for the TC.  Thanks.

  
 

  
Tom Clarke