The Ice Protocol

The Ice protocol definition consists of three major parts:

• a set of data encoding rules that determine how the various data types are serialized
• a number of message types that are interchanged between client and server, together with rules as to what message is to be sent under what circumstances
• a set of rules that determine how client and server agree on a particular protocol and encoding version

Topics

• Data Encoding
• Protocol Messages
• Protocol Compression
• Protocol and Encoding Versions