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Introduction With its massive recent growth and popularity, the Internet faces a dilemma that other forms of media have already resolved: censorship. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) quickly recognized the issues surrounding censorship and in May 1995, its members began working on the Platform for Internet Content Selection (PICS). W3C recently issued PICS specifications as a W3C Recommendation. PICS establishes Internet conventions for label format and distribution methods, while dictating neither a labeling vocabulary nor who should pay

Completed Specifications for PICS-1.1 These are official W3C recommendations. They are stable. The normative specifications are in English. Translations of some of these are available. 1. Service descriptions: Specifies the format for describing a rating service's vocabulary and scales; analogous to a database schema. 2. Label format and distribution: Specifies the format of labels and methods for distributing both self-labels and third-party labels. 3. PICSRules: Specifies an interchange format for filtering preferences, so that preferences can