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Why believe this standard will succeed when DxM failed?

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Why believe this standard will succeed when DxM failed?

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There are a number of key differences between the currently proposed standards and DxM. Most significantly, RETS is built on readily available, well-defined and well-accepted Internet standards, affording a high degree of confidence in its fundamental soundness and making implementation much simpler. DxM was developed before these technologies were available and required additional software tools to operate. Secondly, RETS separates the communications and data exchange components of the standard from the data content covered by the XML DTD. The DTD itself covers only the most common fields that account for the overwhelming majority of data requests. DxM, by contrast, focused on the data elements themselves and attempted to provide a comprehensive dictionary of real estate information, resulting in an unwieldy data set with some 2,500 data elements that combined into over 50,000 data items. Finally, RETS is truly an open standard using well-known technology and committed to industry gui

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