[Rets-dev] On MISMO and RETS

[Paul Stusiak]

The thread Google Base Housing vs. RETS has spanned many different 
topics, making a single response very difficult. Instead, I will attempt 
to reply to some individual comments. Please be aware that the context 
has been narrowed and that may result in the loss of the overarching 
context. The intent is not to pick on specific people who participated 
in the thread, but to correct what I see as some misconceptions.

fwanicka and sschuessler wrote:

>Ok, I’ll agree that MISMO and ACORD sound even worse.


> >What about standards that do not even have a defined transport- MISMO 
or ACORD. There is not automated way of retrieving the data. Each client 
is unique to the vendor transport implementation.


MISMO as a standard has spent a large majority of their effort on data 
dictionary type work rather than the transport level. It is a different 
approach to that of the RETS community but is equally valid.

RETS2 can directly carry MISMO and other standards data packages. We 
call them payloads and they are represented as world-wide standard XML 
and reference world-wide standard XML schema. MISMO is moving towards 
XML schema which will make this interoperability easier.

MISMO is another volunteer group, with some funding provided by the 
Mortgage Banking Association. Some members of the community have shown 
great interest in the work we are doing. They are not formally aligned 
with RETS at this time. RETS sends representitives to the MISMO meetings.

Paul
Falcon Technologies Corp.