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Call for Consent for Akoma Ntoso Naming Convention V1.0 as OASIS Standard

The OASIS LegalDocumentML (LegalDocML) TC members [1] have approved submitting the following Candidate OASIS Standard to the OASIS Membership in a call for consent for OASIS Standard:

Akoma Ntoso Naming Convention Version 1.0
Candidate OASIS Standard 01
03 December 2018

This is a call to the primary or alternate representatives of OASIS Organizational Members 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 [2]. 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 [3]. If you provide your reason by email, please indicate in the subject line that this is in regard to the Call for Consent.

This Committee Specification was approved by the Technical Committee and was submitted for the required 60-day public review [4]. All requirements of the OASIS TC Process having been met [5][6], the Candidate OASIS Standard is now submitted to the voting representatives of OASIS Organizational Members.

— Details —

The Call for Consent opens on 08 February 2019 00:00 UTC and closes on 21 February 2019 23:59 pm timezone. You can access the ballot at:

Internal link for voting members: https://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/voting/ballot.php?id=3306

Publicly visible link: https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/ballot.php?id=3306

OASIS members should ensure that their organization’s voting representative responds according to the organization’s wishes. If you do not know the name of your organization’s voting representative is, go to the My Account page at

http://www.oasis-open.org/members/user_tools

then click the link for your Company (at the top of the page) and review the list of users for the name designated as “Primary”.

— Information about the Candidate OASIS Standard and the LegalDocML TC —

The OASIS LegalDocML TC works to advance worldwide best practices for the use of XML within a Parliaments’, Assembly’s or Congress’ document management processes, within courts’ and tribunals’ judgment management systems, and generally in legal documents including contracts. The work is based on the Akoma Ntoso, a project sponsored by the United Nations.

Akoma Ntoso means “linked hearts” in the Akan language of West Africa. For legal publishers and makers of legal information systems, Akoma Ntoso provides a framework for creating machine-readable parliamentary, legislative and judiciary documents such as legislation, debate records, minutes, judgments, etc. In doing so, it helps build a strong foundation for open access to government information.

URIs
The prose specification document and related files are available here:

HTML (Authoritative):
https://docs.oasis-open.org/legaldocml/akn-nc/v1.0/cos01/akn-nc-v1.0-cos01.html

PDF:
https://docs.oasis-open.org/legaldocml/akn-nc/v1.0/cos01/akn-nc-v1.0-cos01.pdf

Editable source:
https://docs.oasis-open.org/legaldocml/akn-nc/v1.0/cos01/akn-nc-v1.0-cos01.doc

Distribution ZIP files:

For your convenience, OASIS provides a complete package of the prose specifications and related files in a ZIP distribution file. You can download the ZIP file here:

https://docs.oasis-open.org/legaldocml/akn-nc/v1.0/cos01/akn-nc-v1.0-cos01.zip

— Additional information —

[1] OASIS LegalDocumentML (LegalDocML) TC
https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/legaldocml/

TC IPR page
https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/legaldocml/ipr.php

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

[3] LegalDocML TC comment mailing list: legaldocml-comment@lists.oasis-open.org (You must be subscribed to send to this list. To subscribe, see https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/comments/index.php?wg_abbrev=legaldocml .)

LegalDocML TC main mailing list: legaldocml@lists.oasis-open.org

[4] Candidate OASIS Standard Special Majority Vote:
https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/ballot.php?id=3272

[5] Public reviews:

60-day public review, 07 December 2018:
https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/members/201812/msg00002.html
– Comment resolution log:
https://docs.oasis-open.org/legaldocml/akn-nc/v1.0/cos01/akn-nc-v1.0-cos01-comment-resolution-log.txt

15-day public review, 25 April 2017:
https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/legaldocml/201704/msg00011.html
– Comment resolution log:
http://docs.oasis-open.org/legaldocml/akn-nc/v1.0/csprd03/akn-nc-v1.0-csprd03-comment-resolution-log.txt

15-day public review, 10 June 2016:
https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/legaldocml/201606/msg00002.html
– Comment resolution log:
http://docs.oasis-open.org/legaldocml/akn-nc/v1.0/csprd02/akn-v1.0-csprd02-comment-resolution-log.xls

30-day public review, 07 May 2015:
https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/legaldocml/201505/msg00004.html
– Comment resolution logs:
http://docs.oasis-open.org/legaldocml/akn-nc/v1.0/csprd01/akn-v1.0-csprd01-comment-resolution-log.xls
http://docs.oasis-open.org/legaldocml/akn-nc/v1.0/csprd01/akn-v1.0-csprd01-TAB-comment-resolution-log.xlsx

[6] Statements of Use:

– Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO): https://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/legaldocml/download.php/64234/latest/1.Statement%20of%20use%20-%20FAO_letter_20180

– Xcential Corporation: https://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/legaldocml/download.php/64235/latest/2.StatementOfUse-Xcential-nc.pdf

– CIRSFID, University of Bologna: https://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/legaldocml/download.php/64236/latest/3.StatementOfUse-CIRSFID-UNIBO-nc.pdf