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Since 1999, RETS, sponsored by the National Association of Realtors (NAR), has been
helping Agents, Brokers, MLSs and other participants in the real estate transaction exchange information using a common protocol.
The principles of Ronin Technologies have been involved in RETS community for the past five years, deploying
enterprise B2B and B2C RETS solutions for brokers, associations, and third party vendors, while also working at the behest
of NAR to move the standard forward. Our work for NAR includes reference implementations, the creation of a compliance
program for clients and servers, and the development of a domain model for real estate.
Most recently, we co-authored
the RETS2 Service specification, adopted by the RETS community in August 2006. This specification, the result of two
years of outreach, research and development, moves RETS into the world of Web Services and SOAP. It expands the
scope of RETS from listings to embrace the larger Real Estate Transaction Lifecycle with a more robust and flexible architecture.
RETS2 positions RETS as a meta-standard, able to carry payloads from other standards, such as MISMO and OSCRE/PISCES.
Currently, we are working with the community to develop and ultimately approve new data payloads
for the MLS and transaction managment communities.
Our ongoing work with RETS2 involves interoperability testing
between Java and .NET; in-depth research and development work with emerging Web Services standards; and strategic planning
to make certain that the goals of RETS continue to match the business needs of the real estate community.
If you
would like help in making RETS part of your enterprise Real Estate solution, contact us at Ronin Technologies today.
To learn more about RETS, visit http://www.rets.org.
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