Section 34.2 describes the encoding rules,
Section 34.3 describes the various protocol messages,
Section 34.4 describes compression, and
Section 34.5 explains how the protocol and encoding are versioned and how client and server agree on a common version. (Both encoding and protocol specifications are currently at version 1.0.) Finally,
Section 34.6 provides a comparison of the Ice protocol and encoding with those used by CORBA.
