[OLPC library] Tim Berners-Lee

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Samuel Klein wrote:
> I wrote to find out what in particular he has
> in mind.   some form of organization-neutral content stamping has been
> discussed and well-understood for over a decade now.

Which one?

1.
http://www.w3.org/PICS/ (for content), is it still in use?  It sounds 
like ICRA 
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Content_Rating_Association ) 
abandoned it and went to a meta tag approach, maybe
   <meta name="RATING" content="RTA-5042-1996-1400-1577-RTA">
or
   <link rel="meta" href="http://www.playboy.com/labels.rdf" 
type="application/rdf+xml" title="ICRA labels" />


2.
http://www.w3.org/P3P/ (for privacy) never really got much traction, I 
thought some sites revealed P3P policy and browsers could use this to 
block them, but I have no idea if sites and browsers do anything with it.


3.
It seems that the Browse activity doesn't use the anti-phishing that 
Firefox 3 uses, it'll willingly visit

http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/its-a-trap.html  (demo)
http://www.urasoudan.com/bbslog/www_smile_co_uk_security_update_online_instant_message/index.html

(Heh, Google Chrome doesn't even know the latter is a phishing site, I 
thought Google provided the blacklist to Mozilla.)


4.
There's some interesting discussion about the MediaWiki interwiki list, 
the thing that lets a wiki page link to e.g. [[meta:Vision]] instead of 
[http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Vision].  It's turning into a "We trust 
these wikis to avoid spam and monitor links" white list.


5.
Any system for reputation is immediately seized upon by spammers :-( 
We've had the tools to say exactly what a site or page is about (<meta 
keywords, <meta description) long before Sir Tim's semantic web, but 
nobody trusts them because they're gleefully abused.

I'm sorry that I'm rambling,
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