Re: ICE Standard

[Rael Dornfest <rael@oreilly.com>]

Howdy,

Ian Graham wrote:

> ICE defines a language for generic content exchange (all sorts of
> different 'content payloads' can be syndicated) but that also includes
> markup to encode session management and control data relevant to the
> processing of content exchange requests and responses. That's a very
> rough description -- I'm sure others will correct me if they feel I've
> over/mis-stated something ;-)
>
> RSS, on the other hand, is designed to encode a single, relatively
> simple payload type, and does not include any syndication session
> management information. The latter is, IMHO, a Good Thing.

For interest's sake, you might want to take a gander at Laird Popkin's
writeup of some experimentation with "RSS-in-ICE"[1] after a discussion[2]
with Dave Winer on [xml-dist-app].  In fact, I created a live version of
Laird's mockup as a Meerkat flavour[3].

Rael

[1] http://www.io.com/~laird/rss-in-ice.html
[2] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/xml-dist-app/2000May/0137.html
[3] http://meerkat.oreillynet.com/?_fl=ice

------------------------------------------------------------------
  Rael Dornfest                  rael@oreilly.com
  Maven,                         http://www.oreillynet.com/~rael
  The O'Reilly Network           http://meerkat.oreillynet.com
------------------------------------------------------------------