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What is PICSRules? PICSRules is a language for expressing filtering rules (profiles) that allow or block access to URLs based on PICS labels that describe those URLs. The purposes for a common profile-specification language are: Sharing and installation of profiles. Sophisticated profiles may be difficult for end-users to specify, even through well-crafted user interfaces. An organization can create a recommended profile for children of a certain age. Users who trust that organization can install the profile rather than specifying one from

Does it matter whether labels are applied to IP addresses or to URLs? An IP address identifies the location of a computer on the Internet. A URL identifies the location of a document. To simplify a little, a URL has the form http://<domain-name>/<filename>. A web browser first resolves (translates) the domain-name into an IP address. It then contacts the computer at that address and asks it to send the particular filename. Thus, a label that applies to an IP address is a very broad label: it applies to every document that can be retrieved