From: "David K. Merriman" <merriman@arn.net>
Date: Fri, 10 May 1996 16:23:21 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Mandatory Voluntary Self-Ratings
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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

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