Parental Guidelines
http://www.adequate.com/ratings
The Adequate.com Parental Guidelines are a rating system that allows parents to select which web sites their children are permitted to access. If a web site rates above the maximum parental rating, access will be denied.

The Recreational Software Advisory Council
http://www.rsac.org/homepage.asp
RSAC ia a non-profit organization that empowers the public, especially parents, to make informed decisions about electronic media by means of an open, objective, content advisory system. The RSACi system provides consumers with information about the level of sex, nudity, violence, offensive language in software games and Web sites.

The Internet Filter Assessment Project
http://www.bluehighways.com/tifap/
This site contains the results of the Internet Filter Assesment Project, which took a hard look at Internet content filters from a librarian's point of view. Also contains information on various filtering products.

PC Magazine 1999 FilterGuide
http://www.zdnet.com/pcmag/features/utilities99/parfilt01.html
How do you monitor and control what your child sees while surfing the Internet? Web filtering software can help by protecting kids from sexually explicit Web pages and other questionable material. PC Magazine tested eight popular Web filtering packages to see how well they worked.

Practical Guide to Internet Filters: Internet Access Management Options
http://www.bluehighways.com/filters/options.html
A one page summary of the issues and options surrounding the use of Internet filters.

World Wide Web Consortium PICS Rating System FAQ
http://www.w3.org/PICS/PICS-FAQ-980126.html
Just the facts, please, about the Platform for Internet Content Selection (PICS), which is a set of technical specifications that facilitate user/recipient-centered controls on Internet content, rather than sender-centered controls.

Configuring Internet Explorer to use PICS ratings
http://support.microsoft.com/support/ie/iewin16/inprodhlp/ie/rtg_stup.asp

Configuring Netscape to use PICS ratings
http://help.netscape.com/kb/consumer/981128-1.html?queryid=92835

SafeSurf
http://www.safesurf.com/
Working to make the Internet safe for kids, SafeSurf has developed and is implementing an Internet Rating Standard that brings together parents, providers, publishers, developers, and all the resources available on the Internet.

World Village
http://www.worldvillage.com/wv/school/html/control.htm
Addional information on content control resources ranging from browsers to filtering products.

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