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Subject: Summary of early meeting




From: "John Greacen" <>
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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:

 

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

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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

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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

HCR 78, Box 23

Regina, New Mexico 87046

505-289-2164

505-289-2163 (fax)

505-780-1450 (cell)

 


















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