The ICE Authoring Group included Microsoft,[4] Adobe, Sun, CNET, National Semiconductor, Tribune Media Services, Ziff Davis and Reuters, amongst others,[5] and was limited to thirteen companies.
[2] ICE was submitted to the World Wide Web Consortium standards body on October 26, 1998,[6] and showcased in a press event the day after.
Vignette had a demo version of an ICE-capable server named Site-to-Site in February 1998, aiming to show how the protocol could facilitate content exchange between websites.
[11] Site-to-site was initially scheduled for release in summer 1998;[3] it was launched under the name Vignette Syndication Server on February 22, 1999.
[14] [15] Comparable XML specifications include WDDX,[16] NITF, XMLNews, NewsML, and PRISM,[8] as well as CDF, RSS, Atom, and Open Content Syndication (OCS).