1996
DOI: 10.1145/236156.236175
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PICS: Internet access controls without censorship

Abstract: establishes Internet conventions for label formats and distribution metbods wbile dictating neither a labelproblem inherent ing vocabulary nor who should pay in all media tbat attention to whicli labels. It is analoserve diverse audi-gous to specifying where on a packences: Not all mate-age a label should appear and in rials are appropriate what font size it should be printed without specifying what it should say. The PICS conventions have caught on quickly. In early 1996, IBM, Microsoft, Microsystems, I Oriii… Show more

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“…As mentioned above, credentials may be, in addition to public key certificates, also attribute certificates, revocations, or other credentials such a [13] rating or a record from a database (e.g. the Dun and Bradstreet record returned by Eccelerate [3]).…”
Section: Credential Properties and Typesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…As mentioned above, credentials may be, in addition to public key certificates, also attribute certificates, revocations, or other credentials such a [13] rating or a record from a database (e.g. the Dun and Bradstreet record returned by Eccelerate [3]).…”
Section: Credential Properties and Typesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In the latter, Web resources are described by metadata associated with them, which are used for evaluating whether they can be accessed or not, depending on the preferences specified by the end user or a supervisor. Such approach is adopted mainly by the rating systems based on the PICS (Platform for Internet Content Selection) W3C standard [1], which defines a general format for content labels to be associated with Web sites.…”
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confidence: 99%
“…PICS was designed to provide a standard interface through which Web browsers could access rating bureaus, and through which rating bureaus could provide page ratings for their subscribers (Resnick and Miller, 1996). The idea was to unify the wide range of content rating and filtering services that were emerging with a standard interface, so that those who wanted to filter out pornography or immorality could do so, and so that others who might want to rate pages on other criteria (including automated collaborative filtering) could set up such rating bureaus.…”
Section: Automated Collaborative Filteringmentioning
confidence: 99%