Summary of 3-14-06 teleconference

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Subject: Summary of 3-14-06 teleconference




From: "John M. Greacen" <>
To: "Electronic Court Filing Technical Committeee" <>
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 12:12:17 -0700














This is a summary of the Technical Committee meeting held on
Tuesday, March 14, 2006.



Persons present:



Michael Alexandrou

Jeff Barlow

Jim Beard

Don Bergeron





Tom Carlson

James Cusick

Shane Durham

David Goodwin

John Greacen

Brian Hickman

Christoph Hoashi-Erhardt

George Knecht

Mark Ladd

Laurance Leff

Rex McElrath

John Messing

Robert O’Brien

Nick Pope

 Powell

Michael Robinson

Christopher Smith



John Greacen reported on his meeting with the IT staff of
the Maricopa County Clerk of Court’s Office.  The Clerk of Court will implement ECF 3.0 as part of its current electronic filing
development effort, and will aggressively pursue the implementation effort.  The court has a multiple vendor model,
working with CourtLink, eFiling.com,
and Wiznet, which makes it an ideal setting for one
of our initial implementations. The Clerk of Court has requested technical help
from the TC in implementing the specification.



Tom Clarke and John Greacen recommend that the TC abandon the use of the terms “reference
implementation” and “open source reference implementation.”  OASIS specifications must be implemented
by multiple TC members before they can be submitted
for approval by the OASIS membership. 
The new COSCA/NACM Joint Technology Committee
standards approval process will also require interoperability testing.  But none of those implementations needs
to have, or should have, a favored status as the official implementation
of an OASIS specification.  This
recommendation was approved by the members present.



John Greacen stated that he believes the TC
should nonetheless press  to implement ECF 3.0 in as robust a fashion as possible to maximize the
use of its implementation for interoperability testing.  We should urge the court to implement
eService as a court-supported function and to provide a court-supported filing
portal as well as vendor-supported eFiling
interfaces.



The LegalXML Member Section
Steering Committee is currently voting on a proposal to provide our technical
committee with $8,000 to engage the services of MTG
to provide technical consulting to implementers of ECF
3.0 – particularly .  John Greacen will post a message to the TC list asking if other implementers want to avail themselves
of consulting services.



The members present approved the Signatures Subcommittee
charter submitted by John Messing, with the understanding that the subcommittee
will take action only through the full technical committee.



The members present agreed to postpone posting ECF 3.0 for comment within OASIS until the 3.01 version has
been approved.  Christoph
Hoashi-Erhardt has obtained materials from Tom Clarke and  to use in modifying the specification to
incorporate the nomenclature used by the OASIS SOA
reference model TC.  Tom Carlson reported that he will get a
list of elements whose definitions need to be modified to eliminate data type information
to Christoph this week.  With that
information, Christoph should be able to post a proposed 3.01 release soon.



Tom Carlson plans to complete his review of all of the
definitions – for submission to the XSTF –
by the end of March.



Christopher Smith reported that the subcommittee working
with Roger Winters on the summary for judges and administrators will post a
revised work product this week.



John Greacen reported that the TC
now has appellate data elements from the AO USC, from
the Arizona Supreme Court, and from the Georgia Supreme Court.  We are waiting for additional submissions
from the Arizona Court of Appeals and from the Florida Supreme Court.  John Greacen asked the TC to begin thinking about the process to be followed to
develop the ECF 3.1 release that will include
enhanced appellate court functionality.  Should we appoint a small group of domain
and technical experts – like those used in developing ECF
3.0?  Rex McElrath reported that  does
not consider it necessary to have the ECF 3.1 release
before implementing the specification for electronic filing in the Georgia
Supreme Court.   reported that the NCSC is hosting a meeting on appellate court automation in  this month and will
solicit additional input.



John Messing reported that the Executive Office of
Immigration Review within the US Department of Justice would be a good source
for identifying any additional data elements needed to support administrative
agency electronic filings.



John Greacen will ask Robin Gibson to post hotel and other information
for the May TC face to face meeting, which will be
held in conjunction with the OASIS annual symposium.  Thanks to Christopher Smith, we will meet
at the California Administrative Office of the Courts rather than in the OASIS
symposium hotel to reduce member costs in attending.



Actions reported in this summary will become the actions of
the full technical committee unless objection is received within one week of
the submission of this message to the TC list.



John
M. Greacen

Greacen
Associates, LLC

HCR 



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