ICE Protocol Updated; Author
Group Expands; New Seminars Planned
Alexandria, VA, June 9, 1999 - The Information
and Content Exchange (ICE) Protocol Authoring
Group, creators of the specification for syndicating
content on the World Wide Web, released a new
editorial update of its award-winning standard.
ICE also announced two new companies joining the
authoring group, Reuters New Media Inc. and ShiftKey
Inc., and its next two ICE Summit seminars.
The ICE authoring group approved the updated
protocol and addition of the two new companies
at its May 1999 meeting. ICE, a special membership
organization of Graphic Communications Association
(GCA) Research Institute, now has 10 companies
in its authoring group.
Laird Popkin, chief technical officer of Sothebys.Com
and chair of the ICE authoring group said, "The
May revision tightens the language in ICE and
improves consistency between the document type
definition (DTD) -- the core of the specification
-- and various examples presented in the text."
Popkin added, "The update makes no changes
in the DTD however, so the standard remains completely
stable from before."
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has the updated
text of the ICE Protocol for viewing or downloading
on its Web site at http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-ice.
Brad Husick, vice president, Syndication, Vignette
Corporation, and chairman of the ICE Marketing
Subcommittee said, "The ICE Authoring Group
is honored to welcome Reuters New Media and ShiftKey
to the group. Each company has contributed in
meaningful ways to the latest update of the ICE
protocol, and we look forward to their continued
contributions."
GCA Research Institute holds its next ICE Summit
that presents a management and technical overview
of the ICE protocol, July 12-13, in Chicago. The
group plans another ICE Summit for September 21-22
in Los Angeles. More details and online registration
for the July event are available here.
ICE enables companies such as publishers, wire
services, financial services, and manufacturers
to publish data on World Wide Web sites across
the Internet, maintaining the same content and
editorial control as on their own Web sites. ICE
uses the Extensible Markup Language (XML) a high-performance
technology that allows Web sites to exchange structured
data as well as the images and free-form text
now found on most Web pages.
The ICE authoring group includes representatives
from a wide range of content and technology companies
including Sothebys.Com, Microsoft, Vignette Corp.,
Adobe Systems, National Semiconductor, Tribune
Corporation, CNET: The Computer Network, and Sun
Microsystems, as well as Reuters New Media and
ShiftKey. In October 1998, the ICE Protocol received
official recognition from the W3C as a note to
the XML standard. ICE recently won the Seybold
Technology Trailblazer award for 1998.
GCA is the leading worldwide, technology management
association that represents over 300 companies
involved in electronic information management
and various forms of publishing and distribution.
Press inquiries:
Contact Don Thieme
dthieme@gca.org
+1 703-519-8190
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