FW: [Rets-dev] Google Base Housing vs. RETS

[Steve Verba]

-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Verba [mailto:sverba at adelphia.net] 
Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2007 4:26 PM
To: 'dbt'
Subject: RE: [Rets-dev] Google Base Housing vs. RETS

For an interesting perspective on one standard, and the underlying business
goals and issues that inform the technical debate see...

https://ebusiness.tc.msu.edu/netindustry/page2/files/JMIS2005.pdf

-----Original Message-----
From: rets-dev-bounces at rets.org [mailto:rets-dev-bounces at rets.org] On Behalf
Of dbt
Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2007 2:32 PM
To: rets-dev at rets.org
Subject: Re: [Rets-dev] Google Base Housing vs. RETS

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
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