So, I have been thinking about this Cambria Struggles in Senate Porn Hearings

[RawAlex]

I would not place my faith in a third party solution. What happens if ICRA folds, gets sued into the ground, or otherwise disappears?

Simple solutions are better than complicated ones.

Alex

[Bill]

I also don't like the idea of relying on a third party. There are already way to many thrid partys involved in this problem - varying browsers, varying blocking softwares with proprietary lists, etc.

But, the core idea of somehow getting the FSC , Senate, and others* to start talking about these kinds of solutions, sounds right to me.

The problem being that we have no access to the senate and almost none realistically to the FSC. The FSC has no internet department or experts, or so it seems.

So, does it seem then like the first step is to somehow get the FSC's attention?

What are your thoughts on how to inform the FSC and senate?

* the others being presumably microsoft, apple, and the browser manufacturers.

[walrus]

Originally Posted by RawAlex

I would not place my faith in a third party solution. What happens if ICRA folds, gets sued into the ground, or otherwise disappears?

Simple solutions are better than complicated ones.

Alex

Alex,

Your not, ICRA and a few other ratings services as well as IE uses the W3C consortium Platform for Internet Content Selection (PICS) and you can study the documentation and put together your meta-tag without using a rating service but to be quite honest it is much easier to let a rating service, like ICRA, generate the tag for you. But if you want to learn more about it and figure out its complex structure http://www.w3.org/PICS/. They also have links to other rating services if ICRA is your problem.

[Bill]

Really? Well, what's the code then? If it's a simple universal code why isn't it as commonly known as <meta name="rating" content="Adult"> or it's variations?

If it's a universal code there must be some script somewhere to generate it. I wonder where that script would be?

On a related note, contacting Connor Young sounds good, but we had better have a coherent message, and we'd better be able to speak more loudly than in the past, because so far we haven't managed to get much attention.

[walrus]

Originally Posted by Bill

Really? Well, what's the code then? If it's a simple universal code why isn't it as commonly known as <meta name="rating" content="Adult"> or it's variations?

If it's a universal code there must be some script somewhere to generate it. I wonder where that script would be?

Before I got a bit sarcastic, I personally would have followed the link I provided and looked through the document there. All the information you asked for is contained right there.

I never said it was a simple tag, I did say the documentation was there for someone to read and the instructions are available if you want to do them yourself. If you don't, you have a choice of more than 1 place to go to have the tag generated for you.