Occurrences

Paper

../papers/02-05-02/02-05-02.html

Date of Presentation

Tuesday, 21 May

Time of Presentation

11.45

Presentation Level

In-The-Middle

Abstract

In its simplest sense, syndication is the delivery of content from a content provider, or syndicator, to a content consumer, or subscriber. The Web makes a perfect channel for the syndication for all kinds of content, even B2B transactions. Two very different XML-based syndication protocols have emerged. These protocols have different goals, capabilities, and users. The first syndication protocol, RSS, emerged from the open-source community as a simple mechanism to enable the syndication of news headlines. RSS is specifically designed to be lightweight, simple to use and inexpensive to implement. Because if its elegance and simplicity, RSS has enjoyed tremendous success in the community offering free content. A second, more robust, syndication protocol known as ICE (Information and Content Exchange), was developed by industry content-providers and software vendors. ICE was developed to support syndication business processes. ICE automate the negotiation of subscription characteristics and addresses the need to automate the scheduled, reliable, secure redistribution of any content for publishers and for noncommercial content providers. ICE was designed to provide both pull and push. This paper discusses each of these syndication protocols and explains how RSS syndication capabilities can be extended by the integration of RSS with certain features of the ICE protocol.