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     Electronic Court Filing Version 4.1
     Committee Specification Draft 02
     17 July 2023
     Copyright (c) OASIS Open 2023. All Rights Reserved.
     Source: https://docs.oasis-open.org/legalxml-courtfiling/ecf/v4.1/csd02/xsd/
     Latest stage of narrative specification: https://docs.oasis-open.org/legalxml-courtfiling/ecf/v4.1/ecf-v4.1.html
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<Metadata>
    <URI>http://docs.oasis-open.org/legalxml-courtfiling/specs/ecf/v4.1</URI>
    <Name>Electronic Court Filing 4.1</Name>
    <Summary>OASIS LegaXML Electronic Court Filing 4.1 core specification.</Summary>
    <Description>The LegalXML Electronic Court Filing 4.1 (ECF 4.1) specification 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 minor enhancement release to address several minor message and schema issues identified by implementers of the ECF 4.0 and 4.01 specifications.</Description>
    <Version>4.1</Version>
    <URL>http://docs.oasis-open.org/legalxml-courtfiling/ecf/v4.01/</URL>
    <CreationDate>08/28/2008</CreationDate>
    <LastRevisionDate>06/18/2022</LastRevisionDate>
    <NextRevisionDate/>
    <NIEMVersion>2.0</NIEMVersion>
    <Security>Public</Security>
    <Maturity>2</Maturity>
    <Status>OASIS Standard</Status>
    <Schedule></Schedule>
    <Lineage>http://docs.oasis-open.org/legalxml-courtfiling/specs/ecf/v4.0</Lineage>
    <Relationships/>
    <Keywords>Electronic Service, efiling, eservice</Keywords>
    <Domain>Justice, </Domain>
    <ExchangePartners/>
    <Process>Pre-disposition Court, </Process>
    <TriggeringEvent>Prosecution Charging Decision, Motion Filing</TriggeringEvent>
    <Conditions>if prosecutor finds sufficient evidence to file charges, </Conditions>
    <Endorsements>Will be reviewed by the Joint Technology Committee of the National Association for Court Management (NACM) and the Conference of State Court Administrators (COSCA)</Endorsements>
    <Sponsors>OASIS LegalXML Electronic Court Filing Technical Committee</Sponsors>
    <Purpose>This specification describes the technical architecture and the functional features needed to accomplish a successful electronic court filing system, and defines both the normative (required) and non-normative (optional) business processes it supports.  The non-functional requirements associated with electronic filing transactions, as well as the actions and services needed to accomplish the transactions, such as network and security infrastruc-tures, are defined in related specifications. </Purpose>
    <MessageExchangePatterns>message</MessageExchangePatterns>
    <CommunicationsEnvironment/>
    <ExchangePartnerCategories>Court, Defense, Prosecutor, State Administrative Office of the Courts,</ExchangePartnerCategories>
    <AuthoritativeSource>
        <Category>none</Category>
        <Organization>
            <Name>OASIS LegalXML Electronic Court Filing (ECF) Techncal Committee (TC)</Name>
            <Address1>PO Box 455</Address1>
            <Address2/>
            <City>Billerica</City>
            <State>MA</State>
            <Zip>01821</Zip>
            <Country>USA</Country>
            <URL>http://oasis-open.org/legalxml-courtfiling</URL>
        </Organization>
        <PointOfContact>
            <Name>James Cabral, InfoTrack US</Name>
            <Address1>1400 N. McDowell Boulevard</Address1>
            <Address2/>
            <City>Petaluma</City>
            <State>CA</State>
            <Zip>94954</Zip>
            <Country>USA</Country>
            <Phone>502-640-4970</Phone>
            <Email>jim.cabral@infotrack.com</Email>
        </PointOfContact>
    </AuthoritativeSource>
</Metadata>
