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RETS Meeting - April 2007 - Agenda

Posted March 1st, 2007 by administrator

RETS Workgroup Preliminary Meeting Agenda

April 18th – 20th, 2007

DoubleTree Guest Suites Downtown Austin - 303 West 15th Street, Austin, TX

Wednesday, April 18th
   
9:00–3:00 RETS2 MLS Payloads Detailed Review (Houston)
  Interested parties will participate in a detailed review of the MLS payloads. A lunch break will be arranged. Participants are expected to have detailed knowledge of MLS data elements and types and should come prepared with the current versions of the RETS schemas and their laptops.
12:00–12:45 Working Lunch for attendees of the RETS2 MLS Payloads Detailed Review (Houston)
   
1:00–4:30 Compliance Testing Debug Support (Longhorn)
  There are six 30 minute slots for either server or client compliance. These slots are assigned on a pre-attendance registration form. Walk-up compliance may be handled if there are open times. Attendees:
  • Participants should be on-site 30 minutes prior to their assigned time slot to set up.
  • Client compliance tests must bring their client software already loaded on their laptops.
      Additional slots may be added if demand exceeds the number of available slots.
1:00-4:30 Plugfest (Longhorn)
  The Plugfest is an open workshop for client vendors and server vendors to test their inter-operability. This is a popular event where some of the best technical staff from the industry meet to help each other connect using the RETS specification. Server vendors will sign-up before the event to provide clients with an idea of who will be there to help.
2:45–3:15 Break
   
3:00–4:30 RETS2 Membership Payloads Detailed Review (Houston)
  Interested parties will participate in a detailed review of the Membership payloads. Participants are expected to have detailed knowledge of membership data elements and types and should come prepared with the current versions of the RETS schemas and their laptops.
4:30–5:30 RETS Exhibition (Houston)
  Developers are given the opportunity to provide a short demonstration and talk about applications related to RETS. Unlike previous years, this session will be the elimination round to narrow the field to two or three interesting applications that will be presented to the entire RETS-WG meeting for final voting for the most interesting application. As in previous years, a small prize will be awarded to the application deemed most interesting by your peers. A sign-up form will be provided to assist the presenter in organizing this event. Please check the appropriate box on the RETS registration form. Developers should expect 5 – 10 minutes to describe their application and to demonstrate the application running. This typically involves 3 – 10 Powerpoint slides and a few minutes of the application running. An LCD computer output projector and an internet connection will be provided.
5:30–7:00 Welcome Reception (Austin)
  An open reception will be hosted by NAR for all attendees of the RETS Workgroup meetings.
 
Thursday, April 19th
   
8:00-8:30 Breakfast (Houston)
   
8:30-8:45 Opening Remarks
   
8:45-10:15 General Session (Houston)
  All
  • RETS as a Standard: Perspectives – John Bigelow, SOA Software
  • Related standard report
  • RETS2 Roadmap
  • Interoperability Issues
10:15-10:30 Break
   
10:30-12:00 Breakout Sessions
  Track 1 (Houston)
  • Transaction Management Payloads Working Group: Interested parties will participate in a detailed review of the Transaction Management payloads. Participants are expected to have detailed knowledge of transaction management data elements and types and should come prepared with the current versions of the RETS schemas and their laptops.

Track 2 (Blue Bonnet)

  • Marketing Forum
12:00-1:00 Lunch (Houston)
   
1:00-2:30 Breakout Sessions
  Track 1 (Houston)
  • Transaction Management Payloads Working Group cont.: Interested parties will participate in a detailed review of the Transaction Management payloads. Participants are expected to have detailed knowledge of transaction management data elements and types and should come prepared with the current versions of the RETS schemas and their laptops.

Track 2 (Blue Bonnet)

  • Implementation forum: An open session where implementation questions and issues are discussed. The focus will be on RETS2 implementations.
2:30-2:45 Break
   
2:45-4:15  
  Track 1 (Houston)
  • Transaction Management Payloads Working Group cont.: If necessary, the transaction management payload review will continue.

Track 2 (Blue Bonnet)

  • RETS.ORG website: The re-engineered RETS.org site will be discussed. Active participation is desired to provide feedback to the changes and what additional features would be useful.
4:15-5:15 Closing (Houston)
  All
  • Open change proposals discussion. If there are open change proposals, earlier session lengths may be modified to provide additional time.
  • RETS Technical Workgroup Operations discussion.
  • Summaries and Day 2 Wrap-up
  • Next meeting announcement
  • Interesting Applications Presentation
5:15 Adjourn
  Dinner on your own.
 
Friday, April 20th
   
8:00-8:30 Breakfast (Houston)
   
8:30-8:45 Opening Remarks and Agenda Review
   
8:45-10:15 General Session (Houston)
  All
  • Update Workgroup: A session to address more sophisticated Update transaction behavior in the RETS2 specification.
10:15-10:30 Break
   
10:30-12:00 Breakout Session
  Track 1 (Houston)
  • Update Workgroup: Continuation of the discussions, including validation and rules.

Track 2 (Blue Bonnet)

  • Compliance Workgroup
12:00-1:00 Lunch
   
1:00-2:30 Breakout Session
  Track 1 (Houston)
  • Security Workgroup

Track 2 (Blue Bonnet)

  • Update Workgroup (tentative): Continuation of the discussions.
2:30-2:45 Wrap-up (Houston)
   
2:45 Adjourn