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Summary of early meeting

From: John Greacen
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Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 23:05:00 -0000

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Subject: Summary of early meeting

From: "John Greacen" <[email protected]>
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Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 16:02:29 -0700

Because we did not have a quorum, we had the following informal discussion. I ask that the members who attended the meeting at the appropriate time and those who attended neither meeting comment on these items or ask that we hold another conference call. I will suggest that we act on the reimbursement issues separately by email.

Patrick Gannon reported that the input that we provided on the budget for the consultant and the considerations that we hoped he would keep in mind during the hiring process were extremely helpful. He has not yet completed the process of contacting the candidates to begin his analysis of the bids submitted. Nonetheless he is hoping to give us an answer in a week.

The members present supported the 2005 budget as submitted.

The members present supported the plan to transfer the members of the odrxml TC to the ECFTC for the time being – so that they could participate in the discussion of the structure of the Court Filing Blue specification(s) and return to their own separate TC to consider the need for additional work thereafter to accommodate unique content needs of online dispute resolution. The members present propose to keep Debi Miller-Moore as an “ex officio” member of the Steering Committee during this hiatus in the TC’s existence.

The Contracts TC reports that it is moving effectively towards a draft specification, promises to have Dave Marvit submit its progress reports in the future on a timely basis, and requests OASIS’s help in involving some of the major vendors in a review of the draft specification.

Patrick wants the Steering Committee to address how we can reach out to and create interfaces with other OASIS TCs – e.g., between Integrated Justice and the Amber Alert and Early Warning specifications being developed elsewhere in OASIS by the homeland security focused TCs. Messing reported the close interworking of the Digital Signature TC with the eNotary TC. We will put that issue on the agenda for the Las Vegas meeting.

I will send an email asking members to pay personal attention to the organizations that have not renewed their membership to see if we can do anything to get them to re up.

We discussed the TC Process changes. That discussion is reflected in my proposed comments.

We discussed the proposed membership agreement. John Messing characterized it as gobbledegook and asked that it be rewritten in English. John, Don and I all pointed out that the document does not cover the issues that are important to our Member Section – how the agreement affects individual members who are employees of non-member organizations. The OASIS Board has focused exclusively on the corporate environment and ignored the academic, law firm and governmental environments in which we operate. I will draft some suggested comments – due in five days – covering those issues. The alternatives that we discussed are:

- that employees of companies or organizations cannot be individual members (which we said would decimate our Member Section and its TCs);

- that employees of such companies can continue to be individual members provided that their employers agree to the OASIS IP consequences of their participation; and

- that OASIS approve a type of organizational membership that costs $250 and covers an individual participation by an employee of the organization. More participation bumps the organization into a more costly membership category and cost.

We did not reach the issue of reimbursements for Las Vegas. I mentioned the exorbitant hotel meeting room costs. I have left a message with my friend the clerk of the US District Court asking for space in the federal courthouse.

John M. Greacen

Greacen Associates, LLC

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