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LegalRuleML Core Specification V1.0 CS 02 has been presented to the membership by the LegalRuleML TC [1] as a candidate for OASIS Standard. Do you consent or object to its approval as an OS?

Legal texts, e.g. legislation, regulations, contracts, and case law, are the source of norms, guidelines, and rules that govern societies. As text, it is difficult to label, exchange, and process content except by hand. In our current web-enabled world, where innovative e-government and e-commerce are increasingly the norm, providing machine-processable forms of legal content is crucial.

The objective of the LegalRuleML Core Specification Version 1.0 is to define a standard (expressed with XML-schema and Relax NG and on the basis of Consumer RuleML 1.02) that is able to represent the particularities of the legal normative rules with a rich, articulated, and meaningful mark-up language.

LegalRuleML models:

- defeasibility of rules and defeasible logic;
- deontic operators (e.g., obligations, permissions, prohibitions, rights);
- semantic management of negation;
- temporal management of rules and temporality in rules;
- classification of norms (i.e., constitutive, prescriptive);
- jurisdiction of norms;
- isomorphism between rules and natural language normative provisions;
- identification of parts of the norms (e.g. bearer, conditions);
- authorial tracking of rules.

The TC received 4 Statements of Use from Livio Robaldo, Swansea University, CSIRO Data61, and CirSFID-AlmaAI.[2].

This is a call to the Organizational Members of OASIS to consent or object to this approval. You are welcome to register your consent explicitly on the ballot; however your consent is assumed unless you register an objection [3]. To register an objection, you must:

1. Indicate your objection on this ballot, and

2. Provide a reason for your objection and/or a proposed remedy to the TC.

You may provide the reason in the comment box or by email to the Technical Committee on its comment mailing list or, if you are a member of the TC, to the TC's mailing list [4]. If you provide your reason by email, please indicate in the subject line that this is in regard to the Call for Consent. Note that failing to provide a reason and/or remedy may result in an objection being deemed invalid.

URIs:

The Committee Specification is available here:

LegalRuleML Core Specification Version 1.0
Committee Specification 02
06 April 2020

HTML (Authoritative):
https://docs.oasis-open.org/legalruleml/legalruleml-core-spec/v1.0/cs02/legalruleml-core-spec-v1.0-cs02.html

DOCX:
https://docs.oasis-open.org/legalruleml/legalruleml-core-spec/v1.0/cs02/legalruleml-core-spec-v1.0-cs02.docx

PDF:
https://docs.oasis-open.org/legalruleml/legalruleml-core-spec/v1.0/cs02/legalruleml-core-spec-v1.0-cs02.pdf

For your convenience, the complete specification is available in a ZIP package at:

https://docs.oasis-open.org/legalruleml/legalruleml-core-spec/v1.0/cs02/legalruleml-core-spec-v1.0-cs02.zip

Please contact OASIS TC Administration at tc-admin@lists.oasis-open.org with any questions you may have about this ballot.

--- Additional information ---

[1] OASIS LegalRuleML TC
https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/legalruleml/

[2] Statements of use

The Statements of Use are packaged in https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/68193/StatementofUse.zip

[3] https://www.oasis-open.org/policies-guidelines/tc-process-2017-05-26#OScallForConsent

[4] Comments may be submitted to the TC through the use of the OASIS TC Comment Facility as explained in the instructions located at https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/comments/index.php?wg_abbrev=legalruleml

Comments submitted to the TC are publicly archived and can be viewed at https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/legalruleml-comment/

Members of the TC should send comments directly to legalruleml@lists.oasis-open.org.