Invitation to comment on Electronic Court Filing v4.1 & v5.01 and ECF Web Services SIP v4.1 & v5.01 from the ECF TC

By Paul Knight28 Aug 2023

Reviews of four updated Electronic Court Filing draft specifications ends Sept. 9th

We are pleased to announce that Electronic Court Filing Version 4.1 & Version 5.01 and Electronic Court Filing Web Services Service Interaction Profile Version 4.1 & Version 5.01 from the LegalXML Electronic Court Filing TC [1] are now available for public review and comment. This is the second public review for Version 4.1 and the third public review for Version 5.01 of these specifications.

ECF defines a technical architecture and a set of components, operations and message structures for an electronic court filing system, and sets forth rules governing its implementation.

Version 4.1:
LegalXML Electronic Court Filing Version 4.1 (ECF v4.1) consists of a set of non-proprietary XML and Web Services specifications, along with clarifying explanations and amendments to those specifications, that have been added for the purpose of promoting interoperability among electronic court filing vendors and systems. ECF Version 4.1 is a maintenance release to address several minor schema and definition issues identified by implementers of the ECF 4.0 and 4.01 specifications.

Electronic Court Filing Web Services Service Interaction Profile defines a Service Interaction Profile, as defined in section 5 of the ECF v4.1 specification. The Web Services Service Interaction Profile may be used to transmit ECF 4.1 messages between Internet-connected systems.

Version 5.01:
Electronic Court Filing Version 5.01 (ECF v5.01) consists of a set of non-proprietary XML and Web Services specifications developed to promote interoperability among electronic court filing vendors and systems. ECF v5.01 is a minor release that adds new functionality and capabilities beyond the scope of the ECF 5,0, 4.0 and 4.01 specifications that it supersedes.

Electronic Court Filing Web Services Service Interaction Profile defines a Service Interaction Profile (SIP), as defined in section 7 of the ECF v5.01 specification. The Web Services SIP may be used to transmit ECF 5.01 messages between Internet-connected systems.

The documents and related files are available here:

Electronic Court Filing Version 4.1
Committee Specification Draft 02
17 July 2023

Electronic Court Filing Web Services Service Interaction Profile Version 4.1
Committee Specification Draft 02
17 July 2023

Editable source (Authoritative):
https://docs.oasis-open.org/legalxml-courtfiling/ecf-webservices/v4.1/csd02/ecf-webservices-v4.1-csd02.docx
HTML:
https://docs.oasis-open.org/legalxml-courtfiling/ecf-webservices/v4.1/csd02/ecf-webservices-v4.1-csd02.html
PDF:
https://docs.oasis-open.org/legalxml-courtfiling/ecf-webservices/v4.1/csd02/ecf-webservices-v4.1-csd02.pdf
WSDL files:
https://docs.oasis-open.org/legalxml-courtfiling/ecf-webservices/v4.1/csd02/wsdl/
WSDL examples:
https://docs.oasis-open.org/legalxml-courtfiling/ecf-webservices/v4.1/csd02/wsdl/examples/
Complete package in ZIP file:
https://docs.oasis-open.org/legalxml-courtfiling/ecf-webservices/v4.1/csd02/ecf-webservices-v4.1-csd02.zip
Additional information about this and any previous public reviews is published in the public review metadata record:
https://docs.oasis-open.org/legalxml-courtfiling/ecf-webservices/v4.1/csd02/ecf-webservices-v4.1-csd02-public-review-metadata.html
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Electronic Court Filing Version 5.01
Committee Specification Draft 03
27 July 2023

Electronic Court Filing Web Services Service Interaction Profile Version 5.01
Committee Specification Draft 03
17 July 2023

Editable source (Authoritative):
https://docs.oasis-open.org/legalxml-courtfiling/ecf-webservices/v5.01/csd03/ecf-webservices-v5.01-csd03.docx
HTML:
https://docs.oasis-open.org/legalxml-courtfiling/ecf-webservices/v5.01/csd03/ecf-webservices-v5.01-csd03.html
PDF:
https://docs.oasis-open.org/legalxml-courtfiling/ecf-webservices/v5.01/csd03/ecf-webservices-v5.01-csd03.pdf
WSDL schemas:
https://docs.oasis-open.org/legalxml-courtfiling/ecf-webservices/v5.01/csd03/schema/
XML WSDL examples:
https://docs.oasis-open.org/legalxml-courtfiling/ecf-webservices/v5.01/csd03/examples/
Complete package in ZIP file:
https://docs.oasis-open.org/legalxml-courtfiling/ecf-webservices/v5.01/csd03/ecf-webservices-v5.01-csd03.zip
Public review metadata record:
https://docs.oasis-open.org/legalxml-courtfiling/ecf-webservices/v5.01/csd03/ecf-webservices-v5.01-csd03-public-review-metadata.html
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How to Provide Feedback

OASIS and the LegalXML Electronic Court Filing TC value your feedback. We solicit input from developers, users and others, whether OASIS members or not, for the sake of improving the interoperability and quality of its technical work.

The public reviews start 26 August 2023 at 00:00 UTC and end 09 September 2023 at 23:59 UTC.

Comments may be submitted to the TC by any person through the use of the OASIS TC Comment Facility which can be used by following the instructions on the TC’s “Send A Comment” page (https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/comments/index.php?wg_abbrev=legalxml-courtfiling).

Comments should clearly identify which of these four specifications they address.

Feedback submitted by TC non-members for these works and for other work of this TC is publicly archived and can be viewed at:
https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/legalxml-courtfiling-comment/

All comments submitted to OASIS are subject to the OASIS Feedback License, which ensures that the feedback you provide carries the same obligations at least as the obligations of the TC members. In connection with this public review, we call your attention to the OASIS IPR Policy [2] applicable especially [3] to the work of this technical committee. All members of the TC should be familiar with this document, which may create obligations regarding the disclosure and availability of a member’s patent, copyright, trademark and license rights that read on an approved OASIS specification.

OASIS invites any persons who know of any such claims to disclose these if they may be essential to the implementation of the above specifications, so that notice of them may be posted to the notice page for this TC’s work.

Additional information about these specifications and the ECF TC can be found at the TC’s public home page:
https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/legalxml-courtfiling/

Additional references:
[1] OASIS LegalXML Electronic Court Filing TC
https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/legalxml-courtfiling/
[2] https://www.oasis-open.org/policies-guidelines/ipr/
[3] https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/legalxml-courtfiling/ipr.php
https://www.oasis-open.org/policies-guidelines/ipr/#RF-on-Limited-Mode
RF on Limited Terms Mode

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