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Subject: RE: [legalxml-courtfiling] Cancellation of proposed ballot on OXCI options




From: "T J Smith" <TJSmith@ITDecision.com>
To: "Dallas Powell" <dpowell@tybera.com>,"Electronic Court Filing Technical Committeee" <legalxml-courtfiling@lists.oasis-open.org>
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 12:01:06 -0800









John, 
I share Dallas's views on this topic. 
 
The 
OXCI project managers can obviously do whatever they want to do, and in this 
instance have done so after the TC spent the entirety of the last conference 
determining to consider the merits of another alternative. It has not yet had 
the opportunity to do so, and yet a decision has been made.
 
I 
personally believe that the "solution" OXCI has selected resolves only the first 
of a series of technical problems inherent in its fundamental approach, and so I 
wonder how much more of the TC's time will be spent nursing OXCI as additional 
problems surface. I've also questioned whether the TC's interests are well 
served by considering a project to build a "standards-compliant" application in 
the absence of those standards, with the expectation that the application in 
question will somehow easily accommodate whatever eventually emerges from the 
TC. The current discussion about whether an envelope is even needed should 
suggest how ill-founded that premise is. But that should be a problem for 
the OXCI project managers and funders to worry about, and not absorb the already 
sparse resources of this TC in my opinion.
 
The TC 
has requested status reports from Christopher Smith of the California AOC since 
the 2GEFS project was announced. Those specifications are now released, and it 
seems to me that their consideration has a prior claim on the TC's time. I for 
one believe the TC's efforts will be better rewarded as a consequence, and 
in so doing it stands a far better chance of producing a set of usable standards 
in a reasonable time frame.
 





Tom Smith


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