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World Wide Web Consortium PICS Specifications
World Wide Web Consortium PICS Specifications Author:Jim Miller, World Wide Web Consortium World Wide Web Consortium PICS Specifications contains three documents by the World Wide Web Consortium specifying recommendations for PICS specifications. PICS, which stands for Platform for Internet Content Selection, is an industry supported labeling system for websites. PICS is a rating service, where an is an individual, group, organizat... more »ion, or company provides content labels for information on the Internet. The labels it provides are based on a rating system. Each rating service must describe itself using a newly created MIME type, application/pics-service. Selection software that relies on ratings from a PICS rating service can first load the application/pics-service description. This description allows the software to tailor its user interface to reflect the details of a particular rating service, rather than providing a "one design fits all rating services" interface. The three PICS specifications included in this book are: * Rating Services and Rating Systems (and Their Machine Readable Descriptions)
* PICS Label Distribution Label Syntax and Communication Protocols PICSRules 1.1
* PICS Signed Labels (DSig) 1.0 Specification« less