Local Control over Filtered WWW Access
Brenda S. Baker, Eric Grosse · 1995
This paper describes a software system called Signet that provides local control over restricting access to resources on the World Wide Web (WWW). The strategy is to make it easy for a parent or teacher to rate WWW resources and place the tables of ratings into a proxy server designed to restrict Internet access according to the access permissions of the users. Ratings can be made dynamically as the rater browses, so that the rater can insert new ratings into the ratings database at any time. Ratings can also be shared by different raters or organizations so that rating of WWW materials can proceed in a distributed fashion.