It will also enable us to access new information sources as well. News Internet Services believes ICE will reduce engineering resources spent on developing syndication technology. Another factor is the format that information is received today. ICE should help minimize the dirty data and streamline automated feeds. According to the ICE AG, information distribution on the Web today is much like it was in the early days of radio.
Standardization is the missing piece to information distribution information on the Web.
Neil Webber, from Vignette, predicts that ICE will reduce friction of information interchange on the Web. He also predicts that ICE will be used in ways we never dreamed when the standard was developed. It will most likely be used for all sorts of information exchange, not just just for publishing. Phil pointed out that ICE is a generic replication scheme across all environments. It will provide the fluidity that will accelerate what the Web can be.