| The RETS Media Management Working Group held a meeting on March 24, 2004. On the agenda were two change proposals. Each were discussed and a recommendation proposed and voted on.
The workgroup met for 1:30 minutes. Attending were:
- Paul Stusiak, chair
- Dave Dribbin
- Allen Schmidt
- Jonah Harkema
RCP 040 PostObject - TABLED
Discussion was limited on this change request, with general agreement that the proposal concept was sound, there were a number of inconsistencies within the proposal that needed clarification.
Unfortunately, there was no representative from the submitter to respond to the questions.
The group proposed that the recommendation to the RETS group was to table this change proposal until the next meeting where it will either be recommended for rejection or replaced by an omnibus Object proposal.
A vote was taken and the motion passed unanimously.
RCP 049 - Remove Multipart from GetObject - TABLED
Discussion was lively around this change proposal. Dave Dribbin, the submitter, was present to answer questions about the proposal.
Some concern was voiced over changes to the standard that result in existing implementations breaking. This proposal would not be backward compatible. It would require changes for any server or client vendor who had implemented multipart mime.
A good comment was made by Dave Dribbin that we shouldn't be afraid to make a change to the standard.
Discussion centered around the lack of feedback from interested parties who may be impacted by this change proposal. The RETS-DEV newsgroup will have a new thread started to collect this feedback since there was a low turn out to this workgroup.
The group proposed that the recommendation to the RETS group was to table this change proposal until the next meeting where it will be recommended for acceptance.
A vote was taken and the motion passed unanimously.
Comment: Within the parameters of the breakout workgroup, the motion could have easily passed through the workgroup with the recommendation to accept and have passed through the RETS workgroup as a whole. Fortunately, the submitter graciously allowed the motion to be tabled until other interested parties comment on the proposal. Changes of this nature need the feedback of all impacted parties and those parties did not provide adequate feedback.
I would strongly recommend that other interested parties make their needs known to the Media workgroup either by their physical presences and representation or through written submissions.
The workgroup discussed a GetObject server implementation where the only "active" transaction was the GetObject transaction. Such a server, supporting only Login, GetObject and Logout would support the goal of inter- server communications as discussed in a thread on the dev workgroup. The workgroup agreed that the appropriate place for this discussion to continue was with the Compliance workgroup.
Paul Stusiak took on the task of communicating this to the workgroup and to the DEV-List
A new omnibus proposal was discussed to augment the GetMedia transaction and the metadata around such a transaction.
Additional information in the GetObject transaction was discussed in general, focusing around such elements as image dimension (2 dimensional) and resolution. Further discussion is required.
As well, rolling up the PostObject transaction was discussed for this proposal.
Further discussion will occur in a teleconference within the next month.
Some new business was discussed:
1. Additions to the well-known names such as AERIAL.
2. Grouping of media items
Both of these items will be discussed at the upcoming teleconference.
Given the low turn out, the workgroup is considering recommended that the group be disbanded if there is not a significant increase in participation at the next RETS workgroup meeting. |