-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- At 11:17 AM 05/9/96 -0400, Joseph M. Reagle Jr. <reagle@MIT.EDU> wrote:
I've figured out where my differences between myself and others
lay. The _only_ system and service that I am aware of that is distributing PICS labels is RSAC. (http://www.rsac.org) They are what one could call an objective and non-arbitrary content rating system rather than an "appropriateness" system. "Appropriateness" systems will be valuable 3rd party systems when the vigilantes and fundamentalists wish to create label bureaus. For self labeling, if many people (main stream people) are going to use that system within their browser, it will have to have mind share. If it's going to have mind share, I think it would be advantegeous to it to be a descriptive label rather than "appropriate." Hence, much of the concerns I'm hearing aren't so worrisome to me.
SurfWatch is offering self-rating via a web page at their site. It spits back the appropriate 'meta' tags to embed in an html document. Dave Merriman -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBMZFQ+MVrTvyYOzAZAQFM+gP/edsvNSSkeiyZVBuJyWYCK82J7O1zG5O8 jI5cGj22R/qSPAhhpZj6pLFxvoKnuUc7P+8QzAao1ccxihZpy5ZW3fzM/+pyn6dW B126/l4R+SRCrDiPV+5HeXyBTXAiWYMjRAuv2nZtHVIiLjQrjziwrug4H/4U26GP NEbKT8Uqwno= =UAbu -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------- "Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys." P. J. O'Rourke (b. 1947), U.S. journalist. <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> http://www.shellback.com/personal/merriman/index.htm