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Information and Content Exchange
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Clift)
Thu Feb 12 16:37:18 1998
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 16:00:11 -0500 (EST)
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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.
End of clip ...
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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
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Home Page - http://freenet.msp.mn.us/people/clift
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