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IDEAlliance Issues ICE 2.0 RFC
at Industry News Standards Summit
Industry Strength, Web-Services
Compliant Syndication Protocol Nears Final Approval
Philadelphia, PA – Dec. 9, 2003 – IDEAlliance,
a leading trade association dedicated to fostering
information technology standards, highlighted
the new ICE 2.0 Specification and issued a Request
for Comment at the News Standards Summit held
in conjunction with the XML 2003 Conference and
Exposition. XML 2003 is being held Dec.
7-12 at the Pennsylvania Convention Center.
The News Standards Summit, co-sponsored by
IDEAlliance, IFRA (NCA-FIEJ Research Association),
IPTC (International Press Telecommunications Council),
NAA (Newspaper Association of America), and OASIS,
brought together 75 major players in the news
industry – experts on news metadata standards,
as well as commercial news providers and aggregators,
to analyze the current state of (and future
expectations for) XML-enabled news publishing
efforts from both the content and processing-model
perspectives.
The
ICE specification, originally developed in 1998
by a community of 80 content providers and software
venders, provides businesses with an XML-based
common language and architecture that facilitates
automatic delivery, updating and managing content
assets in a trusted fashion without manual packaging
or knowledge of remote Web-site structures. With the development of this major revision
to the ICE Specification, robust content syndication
is supported in a Web Services environment for
the first time.
According to Dr. Richard Martin, Chairman
of the ICE2 Specification Development Committee,
"For Version 2.0 of the ICE protocol, it
was critical to consider integration of Web Services
related standards for the ICE2 definition. Given
that ICE content syndication and the Web Services
standards are squarely focused on distributed
computing space, the synergy between the two sets
of standards should be exploited to make ICE2
more complete and easier to adopt."
Dianne Kennedy, Vice President of Publishing
Technologies for IDEAlliance and Editor of the
ICE 2.0 Specification, commented, "Unlike RSS
and other light-weight syndication protocols,
ICE 2.0 is designed to support industrial-strength
content syndication. It provides for subscription management,
verification of delivery, and scheduled delivery
in both push and pull modes. ICE is the protocol for syndicators who
are distributing ‘valued content’ that generates
a revenue stream or requires guaranteed delivery
in a secure environment."
Development of the ICE2 specification is an
open industry activity, and user participation
is welcomed. The ICE Authoring Group is now seeking
comments from organizations that have interest
in putting the proposed ICE2 specification to
use. The
specification and all accompanying schemas and
WSDL scripts are available at http://www.icestandard.org.
The ICE Authoring Group will be conducting two
Web conference walkthroughs of the technical specification
January 15 and January 22, 2004. To learn more about participation in the
ICE development activity, e-mail Laird Popkin,
Chairman of the ICE Authoring Group, at laird@wmg.com
or Dr. Richard Martin, Vice Chairman of the ICE-AG
and Chairman of the ICE2 development effort, at
rmartin@activedatax.com.
About XML 2003
XML
2003 programs focus on critical XML topics such
as B2B, content management, graphics and multimedia,
publishing, vertical industry applications, Web
services, and more. Keynote speakers and presenters
at XML 2003 will include representatives from
Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT); Sun Microsystems,
Inc. (NASDAQ: SUNW); Oracle Server Technologies
(NASDAQ: ORCL); Reuters (NASDAQ: RTRSY); BEA Systems,
Inc. (NASDAQ: BEAS); Hewlett Packard (NYSE:HPQ);
and IBM Corporation (NYSE: IBM). For more information, visit http://www.xmlconference.org/xmlusa/2003/registration.asp.
About ICE and the ICE Authoring Group
ICE (Information and Content Exchange) is a key
industry initiative hosted by IDEAlliance and
sponsored by a group of companies who have a common
interest in solving the problem of automating
and managing the delivery of every type of content.
The group consists of software developers and
companies who distribute or consume content, whether
commercially or within intranet and extranet frameworks.
The ICE Authoring Group is open to all companies
and includes companies such as Adobe Systems,
Active Data Exchange, Oracle, Tribune Media Services
and Warner Music Group. Learn more about ICE at
www.icestandard.org.
About IDEAlliance
IDEAlliance (International Digital Enterprise
Alliance) is a not-for-profit membership organization.
Its mission is to advance user-driven, cross-industry
solutions for all publishing and content-related
processes by developing standards, fostering business
alliances, and identifying best practices. IDEAlliance
has been a leader in information technology since
1966 (founded as Graphic Communications Association)
having fostered the development and adoption of
standards such as ADIS, GRACoL, ICE, JIFFI, Mail.dat,
papiNet, PRISM, PROSE XML, SPACE XML, SGML, and
XML. The goal of IDEAlliance is to enable publishers
and other information-driven enterprises to strategize,
innovate, standardize and implement information
technology solutions in an open and cooperative
cross-industry environment. Learn more about IDEAlliance
at www.idealliance.org.
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