Re: [syndication] Re: ICE Standard

[Ian Graham <ian.graham@utoronto.ca>]

Hi --

Thanks for the references. I'd seen Laird's discussion before (but lost
the URL), by hadn' seen the other 2. The Meerkat dump is quite cool.

Ian

On Sat, 14 Oct 2000, Rael Dornfest wrote:

> 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
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