| The RETS Update Working Group held a meeting on March 24, 2004. On the agenda was one change proposal. It was discussed and a recommendation proposed and voted on.
The workgroup met for 1:30 minutes. Attending were:
- Paul Stusiak, chair
- Dave Dribbin
- Chris Book
- Yogi Schulz
- Scott Woodard
- David Harris
- Pace Davis
- Steve Verba
- Alan Schmidt
- Wantao Zhou
- John Rayburn
RCP 053 Enhancements to Upload Transaction - TABLED
Discussion centered around the low adoption rate of the Update transaction. Other discussion points were the suitability of XML for this particular function.
Possible causes that were discussed included expressing the business rules and server vendor reluctance to allow open access to the data store.
The group proposed that the recommendation to the RETS group was to table this change proposal until the next meeting where it may be recommended for rejection because the group has determined to focus on RETS 2.0 for any enhancements where this proposal will get discussion.
A vote was taken and the motion passed unanimously.
The remainder of the discussion was about the possibility of identifying the issues around the business rules expression and incorporating them into the 2.0 specification rather than devote much effort to fixing or updating the 1.x standard.
While the engineering guidelines stressed backward compatibility, the consensus was that the Update transaction may be the exception to this guideline.
Discussion turned to the business rules portion of the update transaction. As in 1.x, there are two goals for the validation function, fast fail for client side validation and offline or server side validation.
The web services standard BPEL4-ws was discussed as a possible replacement for the expression of business rules, given its adoption in many businesses and the availability of tools.
The specification will be individually investigated as preparation for a future teleconference call. The teleconference call date and time were not set.
New business was the introduction of bulk upload to allow for multiple records to be uploaded and validated rather than singly. This was mostly in the context of the tabled RCP and the discussion from the Media workgroup.
No action items came from this discussion, however, it remains an open issue.
There was a lot of discussion and exchange of ideas in this session. Time ran out before all the discussion points had resolution or additional action items. |