ICE was awarded the Seybold Technology Trailblazer Award for 1998.

According to the Editors at Seybold Publications, "There is no shortage of proposed standards for the Internet. But in 1998 there was one that was significant. The Information and Content Exchange (ICE) protocol is an XML-based mechanism for automating the flow of digital content between business partners. The ICE specification is a significant step forward for those trying to automate the distribution of content on the Web."

Graphic Communications Association Research Institute (GCARI) and the ICE Authoring Group invite you to join us at our first ICE Summit. Learn more about the significance of ICE to the Web-based business model in your future!

This New York summit focuses on the application of ICE to the publishing industry. The ICE Summit is co-sponsored by the Magazine Publishers of America and The Society for Scholarly Publishers. This unique event provides a business overview for the CEO on day one, and a detailed technical overview for the CTO on day two.

A special passport allows a corporation to send the CEO and CTO to their respective days for one reduced price.

Based on the Extensible Markup Language (XML), the Information and Content Exchange (ICE) protocol is the world's first protocol to enable content syndication.

The ICE protocol has been designed to significantly reduce the cost of online business by providing the standard to build Internet value or trading networks, such as syndicated publishing networks, Web superstores and online reseller channels.

For businesses, ICE will make it easier to build value chains from suppliers to distributors to end users.

For consumer Web sites, end users benefit from more complete and easier to use Web destinations that reduce the frustration of having to surf through many inadequate, narrowly focused Web sites in order to find what they need.