[Rets-dev] Reminder: Review period for RETS2 Service document closing

[Paul Stusiak]

At the RETS Workgroup meeting of April 12th, the RETS 2 Service RC2 document
(Release Candidate 2) was adopted by a vote of 30 - 0 in favor.

A motion to make the document Final by electronic vote on May 17th was voted on
and accepted by a vote of 27-3. Details of the voting process, open to all
list-serv subscribers of April 12th, 2006 and attendees of the April 12-13th
meeting, will be sent to the dev list early next week.

The period between April 12th and May 17th was intended to be a period for
interested parties to review RC2 and identify any ambiguities or errors in the
document. To date, there have been two submissions received with correction
suggestions to some of the examples and to the fault codes. Additionally, a
minor change to the wsdl file has been made to change an element from NMTOKEN to
string to resolve an issue with the use of ':'. These corrections will be
incorporated into the final version. A document version with these changes will
be posted tomorrow on www.ftc2.com.

If you are planning to vote on the final release of the RETS 2 Service document,
please take the time to read through the document before voting.

To be clear, the vote is to remove the designation Release Candidate 2 from the
document and wsdl files, making this the official RETS 2 specification. Should
the vote not confirm this as the final version, the final version will be
released for the August RETS meeting with the minor changes that are needed to
correct the errors and ambiguities. Release Candidate has the definition given
by the W3C - companies wishing to begin development against a Release Candidate
can expect, at most, minor changes to the specification to correct ambiguities
and errors in the specification.

Additional work remains to be done on the schema for many of the payloads of
RETS 2. These will be voted on at a future RETS meeting once the schema
documents have been reviewed by the community.

If you have any questions, please contact me.

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Paul Stusiak,
President,
Falcon Technologies Corp.