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1) OCS and ICE's "catalog". ICE has the concept of requesting a 
catalog from a syndicator. The catalog contains offers for
syndication 
of content. The catalog appears to be fairly similar to the OCS 
catalog, though with considerably more (optional) detail around 
scheduling and negotiation, and the ability to customize catalogs 
based on the subscriber's identity. On the flip side, OCS is intended 
to be a front-end to many kinds of information distribution (AvantGo 
channels, RSS, etc.) while (currently) ICE catalogs offer only ICE 
subscriptions.

2) RSS and ICE's "update". Once a subscription is established, 
delivery is through "updates" transmitted from the syndicator to the 
subscriber. I have posted an "expression of RSS in ICE" at 
http://www.io.com/~laird/rss-in-ice.html; I am discussing this with 
Dave Winer (one of the authors of RSS), and am actively pursuing the 
idea that by reconciling the two open standards for content 
syndication we all benefit. As I outlined in the document, it would 
require some modifications of ICE to act like RSS, but those changes 
are beneficial to many other forms of syndiation, not just in being 
like RSS, so I think that it would make sense to make those changes
to 
ICE.