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Minutes of the July 25, 2011 Organizational Meeting

1. John Joergensen: Meeting called to order, introductions made.
2. Bruce Kennedy: Spoke on the importance of media neutral citations and the necessity of a media neutral system to be open, vendor neutral, and as simple and easy to grasp as possible.
3. Tom Bruce: Spoke on the technical challenges of establishing a media neutral citation system.
4. Peter Martin: Spoke on the background of citation reform, the need for a citation server or resolver, the challenges facing the proposed organization, and the critical importance of vendor participation.
5. Meeting opened for general discussion:
   1. Issues Raised:
      1. Adoption of the ABA/AALL sequence numbering system needs to be discussed. The use of dockets or other identifiers were brought up as alternatives.
      2. The challenges of paragraph numbering were discussed. Methods of paragraph numbering and alternatives to a paragraph numbering system were discussed.
      3. The challenges of assigning identifiers to older decisions were discussed.
      4. What kind of systems should be offered to potential users: There was consensus that a general resolver should be established.
      5. The name to be given the proposed organization and its stated purposed was also discussed, with alternatives such as "public citation" and "open citation" being put forward.
   2. Discussion of forming working groups:

      The following working groups were suggested:

      1. Working group on policies concerning identifiers;
      2. Technical working group on identifier assignment;
      3. Working group on assignment of identifiers to older decisions (the backfile);
      4. Working group on pinpoint citation;
      5. An external relations committee.
   3. Next Steps:

   There was general agreement that the following next steps should be taken:

   1. Issuance of a mission statement;
   2. Formation of a governing board;
   3. Invitation to the membership to join working groups.