Real estate salesperson in US-NY
What this register publishes today, what is missing, and the smallest change that would move it up.
What was found
The file exists and it is not on the register’s website. Active salesperson and broker licences are published as a dataset on the state’s general open data portal, in CSV, JSON and XML, each at a fixed download address, dated and updated. The licensing division runs thirty-five occupations and the real estate one is simply one more table among the state’s public data. That route matters more than it looks: the export was not won from the regulator as a service, it arrived because an open data policy applies to state agencies, and the same policy covers appraisers and the rest. An authority that already publishes under such a policy is one DNS record and one signature away from tier A, and nobody has to build it an API first.
What it publishes
| Check | Answer | Why it matters |
|---|---|---|
| A public page per licence | Yes | Gives a reader something to look at and a checker something to archive and attest against. |
| A bulk export | Yes | Lets a consumer hold the whole list instead of fetching one licence at a time, and lets anyone hash it. |
| Machine readable | Yes | A CSV or JSON rather than a page built for a browser. Decides whether checking can be automated at all. |
| Signed | No | Makes the file impossible to forge or mirror convincingly. Nothing reaches grade A without it. |
The next step
Sign the file
The export exists and is machine readable, which is the expensive part. What remains is a key and one DNS record on a domain the authority already controls, which makes the file impossible to forge and takes this row to grade A.
A grade describes a register, not the authority behind it and not the quality of its supervision. An authority can run an excellent register and still sit at grade D because it is a search form.
If this row is wrong, it gets corrected with the correction published beside it. The index is useful only if it can be argued with. Tell the lab.