Information and Content Exchange

Do any of you have comments on this?

Steven Clift

A clip from:

http://www.redherring.com/insider/1998/0211/ice.html

ICE MAY UNSTICK
            CONTENT
            MARKETS 
            Will a new
            media-exchange spec let
            content flow from site to
            site with ease? 

            By Owen Thomas 

            February 11, 1998 

            When Firefly and Vignette came
            out with their proposal last week
            for a cross-site Web content
            distribution standard --
            Information and Content
            Exchange, or ICE -- it looked like
            so much vaporware. For one
            thing, it was based on Extensible
            Markup Language (XML), a
            much-hyped system for creating
            data formats on the fly that
            promised to vastly improve on
            HTML -- but was still awaiting
            approval by the World Wide Web
            Consortium, a major arbiter of
            Web standards. 

            When the consortium blessed
            XML 1.0 yesterday, though,
            things got a lot clearer for ICE.
            The proposal has gotten a boost
            from big names like Microsoft
            and Sun Microsystems, and a raft
            of smaller Net software
            companies have jumped on the
            bandwagon -- hoping, no doubt,
            that if ICE takes off as a standard,
            their products won't be frozen
            out. 


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  Steven Clift - Public Strategies for the Online World
      3454 Fremont Ave S, Minneapolis, MN 55408 USA     
      T: +1.612.824.3747      E: clift@publicus.net

  Democracies Online - http://www.e-democracy.org/do 
  Universal E-mail - http://www.markle.org/G96328d.html
  Home Page - http://freenet.msp.mn.us/people/clift
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