[uf-discuss] PICS

[Tantek Ç elik]

On 10/26/05 3:40 PM, "Kevin Marks" <kmarks at technorati.com> wrote:

> PICS is the prior art here - not sure if it ever got anywhere, but
> researching why would be good.
> 
> http://www.w3.org/PICS/
> 
> I remember when we were working on QuickTime 4, we looked at adding
> these kinds of ratings to movies, but pulled it late on because the
> issue of how to handle unrated stuff was too messy.

BTW, PICS has been a miserable failure on the web.

Totally overdesigned, overengineered, overlyextensible.

Lots of anti-patterns there if anyone wants to do a case study.

Rohit?

Tantek