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 scratch. It will be easy to change the active profile on a single computer, or to carry a profile to a new computer. Communication to agents, search engines, proxies, or other servers. Servers of various kinds may wish to tailor their output to better meet users’ preferences, as expressed in a profile. For example, a search service can return only links that match a user’s profile, which may specify criteria based on quality, privacy, age suitability, or the safety of
