PICS System Overview
- There are any number of rating services who provide
labels for information.
- Each rating service uses a rating system (of its choice)
consisting of one or more scales (or dimensions)
to label information.
- A rating service can label anything that has a URL.
- Labels can be sent with a document or retrieved separately.
- Labels can be created by the author of a document, the publisher
of a document, or an independent third party.
- End-users choose the rating service(s) whose labels they wish
to use, as well as the particular values along the scales that
they consider acceptable (or unacceptable).