John Messing personally developed and oversaw the electronic signature technologies supplied by Law-on-Line. He donated a royalty-free license for use with the symmetric signature profile of the LegalXML-OASIS eNotarization Markup Language (ENML) Version, 1.0

In 1999, he was an original co-founder of LegalXML-OASIS, the leading XML standards body world-wide for legal applications, and from 2004-6 was its Chairman, which during his tenure produced the E-Contracts Technical Committee's Specification 1.0 and continued work on the Electronic Court Filing Technical Committee's highly successful Court Filing Specification , versions 3.01, 3.1 and 4.0.

Within the American Bar Association, from 2006 to 2009, he was a Council Member of the Science and Technology Law Section. From 2001-5, he was Chair of the Electronic Filing Committee which under his leadership produced the Best Practices for Electronic Service of Process. As Chair of the e-Trust subcommittee, he led a diverse group of notary administrators; mortgage banker, land recorder and notary public membership associations; and lawyers and technologists in the development of the influential White Paper on E-notarization. In 2003, he drafted and submitted on behalf of the Section of Science and Technology Law Section, A. Comments to the U.S. Secretary of Commerce, National Telecommunications and Information Administration, on continuing vitality of the Court Documents Exception to the Esign law; and B. in a separate submission, to the Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services, now the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services comments on Electronic Signature on Applications and Petitions for Immigration and Naturalization Benefits. He is credited with new security protections on a proposal to the ABA from the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws regarding a Uniform Real Property Electronic Recording Act ("URPERA"), which resulted in the addition of a new Section 5(b)(5). As of July 1, 2007 URPERA had been adopted by Arizona, Arkansas, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Idaho, Kansas, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, Texas, Virginia and Wisconsin, with pending adoption in Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Missouri, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Utah, and Washington. Mr. Messing has submitted comments to the federal judiciary on proposed revisions to the Rules of Civil Procedure and to the Arizona Supreme Court on proposed Arizona e-discovery rules. He commented to the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Interim Rules for Electronic Generation, Signature and Storage of Forms I-9. He has been approved as a Designated Agent within Law-on-Line for the Employment Verification Program Basic Pilot (now e-Verify).

John Messing is a recognized contributor to the LegalXML-OASIS eNotarization Markup Language (ENML) Version, 1.0, LegalXML Court Document 1.1 Standard, W3C XML Encryption Standard, the OASIS XCBF Biometric Standard and the OASIS LegalXML-OASIS eNotary TC, and was a founding member of the OASIS Enterprise Key Management Infrastructure (EKMI) Technical Committee.

John Messing Publications:

"Coming Changes in Employment Verification Procedures", HRResource.com, Oct. 17, 2007.

"Two Methods of Electronic Service of Process," SciTech Lawyer, Winter 2006, p. 14

Cotter and Messing, "Electronic Filing in the Pima County Small Claims Court--Technical Parameters, Adopted Solutions, and some of the Legal Issues Involved", 38 Jurimetrics J. 397-406 (Jun. 24, 1998), which dealt with a pilot electronic filing program of the Arizona Supreme Court which Mr.Messing conceived and implemented.

While at Stanford Law, John Messing wrote

• "American Actions in Vietnam: Justifiable in International Law?", Stanford Law Review, Vol. 19, No. 6 (Jun., 1967), pp. 1307-1336.
• "Cost Depletion of Groundwater", Stanford Law Review, Vol. 18, No. 6 (May, 1966), pp. 1229-1236.

While at Princeton University, John Messing wrote "Public Lands, Politics, and Progressives: The Oregon Land Fraud Trials, 1903-1910", The Pacific Historical Review, Vol. 35, No. 1 (Feb., 1966), pp. 35-66.

John Messing has been a frequent source and contributor to academic efforts, Internet legal groups, books, governmental efforts, notarial, uniform law endeavors and other technical and professional activities.

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