[Rets-dev] Google Base Housing vs. RETS

[dbt]

On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 02:00:43PM -0400, Frank Wanicka wrote:
> 
> IMO opinion, one compelling reason to change from RETS 1.x is that we
> constantly hear from people using RETS clients that virtually every server
> vendor has a different "interpretation" of the spec and clients need
> specific code to handle each server type. If that isn't a flaw in the spec,
> then I don't know what is. Of course, I have no idea if this is truly
> remedied in 2.0 either.

In RETS 2.0, the business of creating unreadable, incompatible 
specifications with a wealth of incompatible implementations 
has been outsourced to the SOAP community.  It's progress of a 
sort...

-dbt