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Yes. While the motivation for PICS was concern over children accessing inappropriate materials, it is a general "meta-data" system, meaning that labels can provide any kind of descriptive information about Internet materials. For example, a labeling vocabulary could indicate the literary quality of an item rather than its appropriateness for children. Most immediately, PICS labels could help in finding particularly desirable materials (see, for example, NetShepherd's label-informed Alta Vista search), and this is the main motivation for the ongoing work

The www-p3p-policy mailing list gets a steady stream of messages from frustrated Webmasters who are trying to P3P-enable their Web sites and have run into difficulties. In some cases these Webmasters do not understand fundamental concepts about how P3P works. However, in many cases they actually have come pretty close to successfully P3P- enabling their sites, but something is still not quite right. In this article I review some troubleshooting strategies and list some of the frequent mistakes I have seen people make. For more detail about the entire

PICS is a pair of Protocols, allowing labels to be applied to WWW content. These Protocols empower any individual or organization to design and distribute labels reflecting their views about the content. PICS was pioneered by W3C as a practical alternative to global governmental censorship of the Internet. In addition, the same technology facilitates searching the WWW and provides a foundation for establishing trust in information on the WWW. PICS labels are rather limited in their expressiveness. A new version of PICS will be based on RDF, facilitating

Making a Device-Independent Web Requires Improved Communication Between User Devices and Web Servers One of the W3C's primary goals is Universal Access. Users must be able to use their choice of devices to access Web content, in ways that are appropriate for their hardware capabilities, software, network infrastructure, native language, culture, geographical location, or physical abilities. CC/PP provides a standardized format of the description of information that will allow Web-enabled devices to effectively communicate their capabilities to the

The future is more likely to see the cooperation between existing methods and languages such as SMIL’s switch and CSS media queries as well as with emerging methods and languages. All of these refined and orchestrated through the use of CC/PP profiles and preferences. The work on a device independent Web is not over yet. The protocols defining how profiles are exchanged, requested, or deduced by and between Web servers, proxies and agents are yet to be fully standardized, and so are the mechanisms regulating selection and transformation of content

When expressing device capabilities, the strength of CC/PP is that it has the flexibility HTTP content negotiation lacks. Far from simply defining a fixed set of preferences that would be used to build device profiles, the RDF-based framework also allows the creation of whole vocabularies, making the expression of device and agent capability, as well as user preference, infinitely extensible. Using CC/PP, creators of Web devices and user agents can easily define precise profiles for their products. Web servers and proxies can use these profiles to

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Sept. 11, 1995 - A wide-ranging group of publishers, telecommunications companies, Internet and online service providers and software firms are working together under the auspices of The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) to develop an easy-to-use labeling and selection platform, called PICS, that empowers people worldwide to selectively control online content they receive through personal computers. PICS stands for Platform for Internet Content Selection, and is expected to be available royalty-free in early 1996. PICS is the result

CAMBRIDGE, MA, September 11, 1995 . . A wide-ranging group of publishers, telecommunications companies, Internet and online service providers, and software firms are working together under the auspices of The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) to develop an easy-to-use labeling and selection platform, called PICS, that empowers people worldwide to selectively control online content they receive through personal computers. PICS stands for Platform for Internet Content Selection, and is expected to be available royalty-free in early 1996. PICS is the

The rules interpreting PICS labels are entirely local to clients. A client receives a PICS label and decides the effect that this particular label should have, based on local rules. Although these rules can be specified in a product-specific way, W3C has defined a language for them. This language is PICSRules []. PICSRules has the following advantages over proprietary approaches: * Sharing and installation of profiles The creation of profiles (a certain set of rules) can be complicated, and by using a common language, a profile can be created and

"P3P" is actually the name for a group of technologies that work together to create a framework to allow users to exercise preferences over the privacy practices of web sites. Applications using P3P will keep users informed about web sites' privacy practices, and allow them to dictate the extent to which their personal information is revealed to the site. Technically, P3P consists of an XML vocabulary, a strongly defined set of base data types, and a rule-based language that acts on a set of rules used to express a user's preferences. Web sites

Microsoft plans to incorporate the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)-developed Platform for Privacy Preferences (P3P) specification into its Internet Explorer 6 and Windows XP operating system, both available in fall 2001. P3P lets Internet surfers select levels of privacy protection in dealing with Web sites, and in particular with the sites' use of cookie files. But many analysts question whether P3P is sufficient to protect users' privacy and worry about possible Microsoft domination of Web privacy. The privacy tools in Internet Explorer 6 will let

P3P (Privacy Preferences Platform) was established by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) to provide internet users with a sense of privacy when surfing the internet. W3C is the official web standards body, which essentially attempts to bring law and order to the Internet. P3P started to allay consumer concern about the amount of data collected by web sites. The idea is that any site gathering information about its users should state why it wants the information, and how long information will be retained for. For example: "We are monitoring these

This is the first of a four part series of articles that will examine issues related to web services security. The goal is to explain and demonstrate the use of emerging XML-based security standards from W3C and OASIS. The series will help developers understand: * the security requirements of web service applications; * how the different standards fulfill the different security requirements; * how the different security standards are related to each other; and * how they coordinate to form modules of the entire web services security

This is the first of a four part series of articles that will examine issues related to web services security. The goal is to explain and demonstrate the use of emerging XML-based security standards from W3C and OASIS. The series will help developers understand: * the security requirements of web service applications; * how the different standards fulfill the different security requirements; * how the different security standards are related to each other; and * how they coordinate to form modules of the entire web services security