Errata 5: REAgent tag missing brokerage affiliation info

ERRATA: REAgent tag missing brokerage affiliation info
Reporter: michael.delgaudio@mris.net

RETS Version: 1.0.0
RETS Document: Real Estate Transaction Standard 1.0

Location(s): locations in the documents as one of line number, section and page or page number.

Description:
The REAgent tag suffers greatly in that there is no way to associate the Agent with his or her affiliated offices. In fact, the standard is vague on what address information belongs in the agent tag. Should it be the agent's Home Address? Office Address?

Proposed Solution:
One interpretation: since Agents may be affiliated with many offices that the appropriate address may be the agent's Home Address. In that case, there needs to be a way to associate this agent with his or her offices to also display office address. One solution may be to add an affiliations list to the REAgent structure:

<affiliations>
<affiliation>
<officeid>
<brokerid>
</affiliation>
<affiliation>
<officeid>
<brokerid>
</affiliations>

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