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RETS Workgroups

Current Workgroup Activities

Five subsidiary workgroups within the RETS group work on specific areas within the standard. To join any of these workgroups, join the group’s mailing list, given below. The workgroups meet more often in conference calls, and are generally quite active.

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When workgroups are developing something that changes the standard, their charter is to create detailed change proposals that are then submitted to the full RETS group for approval. If you’re interested in helping to draft changes and additions to the standard, the workgroups are the best way to do that.

Compliance
The Compliance workgroup creates guidelines and documents to help developers insure that their products are compliant with the RETS specifications. To join this working group, sign up for their mailing list using the web-based signup form.

Data Dictionary
The Data Dictionary workgroup maintains the RETS data dictionary, both in content and architecture. The data dictionary is the document that specifies the content of fields within the RETS DTDs. To join this working group, sign up for their mailing list using the web-based signup form.

Marketing
The Marketing workgroup hosts discussions about marketing the benefits of RETS to vendors and users alike. To join this working group, sign up for their mailing list using the web-based signup form.

Media Management
The Media Management workgroup hosts discussions about marketing the benefits of RETS to vendors and users alike. To join this working group, sign up for their mailing list using the web-based signup form.

Metadata
The Metadata workgroup maintains the content and architecture of the metadata portions of the RETS specification, as well as drafting guidlines for metadata content. To join this working group, sign up for their mailing list using the web-based signup form.

RETS 2.0
The RETS Version 2.0 workgroup is designing, specifying and writing the RETS 2.0 specification. Preliminary scope and engineering documents documents are available. To join this working group, sign up for their mailing list using the web-based signup form.

Transport
The Transport workgroup works on transport, enveloping and packaging issues within RETS. This group is currently looking at new W3c standards that may be applicable to RETS. To join this working group, sign up for their mailing list using the web-based signup form.

Update
The Update workgroup works on the RETS Update transaction, including workflow and update-specific metadata. To join this working group, sign up for their mailing list using the web-based signup form.

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Ad-Hoc Workgroups
Ad-hoc workgroups are formed to discuss specific issues that do not require an ongoing collaboration effort.

Distributed Data Base
The Distributed Data Base ad-hoc workgroup is formulating a change proposal that will add facilities necessary for data base replication. The group has a mailing list that is open to anyone with an interest in the topic.

Resources

An outline of the changes under discussion.
Conference call notes: March 13, 2003
Hotsheet
The Hotsheet ad-hoc workgroup is formulating a change proposal to the specifications necessary to provide Hotsheet functionality. The group has a mailing list that is open to anyone with an interest in the topic.

Resources
An outline of the changes under discussion.
A whitepaper describing the design and implementation of Hotsheet functionality.

Current Workgroup Activities

Deadline	Workgroup	Project	Source	Next Activity	Date
	Data Dictionary	CMA functional area requirements	December meeting
	Data Dictionary	Distributed data base requirements	December meeting
	Data Dictionary	Aggregation name requirements	December meeting
	Compliance	Fixed price testing. CRT or third-party.	December meeting
	Compliance	Possibililty of passive compliance checker	December meeting
	Compliance	“Negative” testing	December meeting
	Compliance	Functional-area testng	December meeting
	Compliance	Test data for client compliance tester	December meeting
	Metadata	Capability to request nonstandard DTDs	December meeting
	Search	Search language specifications (New working group)	December meeting
		Compact format specifications & DMQL changes	December meeting
	Upload	Enhancements to upload transaction	December meeting
	Transport	2.0 Specifications SOAP limitation issues	December meeting
	Metadata	StandardNames ambiguity issues	August meeting
	Compliance	Process for adding new test scripts and recertification	August meeting
		Hotsheet issues	April meeting
		Localization of metadat	April meeting
		Security and data protection proposal. Visibility rules.	April meeting