Appendix D. The PICS Specification

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Appendix D. The PICS Specification

The PICS specification introduced in Chapter 23 consists of two parts:

• A specification for the protocols that must be supported by a rating service. This specification is located at http://w3.org/PICS/services.html.

• A specification for the format of the labels themselves. This specification is located at http://w3.org/PICS/labels.html.

An excellent article describing PICS is "PICS: Internet Access Controls Without Censorship," by Paul Resnick and James Miller, Communications of the ACM, October 1996, p. 87. The online version of the article is at http://w3.org/PICS/iacwcv2.htm.

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