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               <h1 class="title">PICS Current Status</h1>
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<p style="border: solid thick red; padding: 1em">PICS has been superseded by the Protocol for Web Description Resources (<a href="/2007/powder/">POWDER</a>). W3C encourages authors and
implementors to refer to POWDER (or its successor) rather than PICS when developing systems to describe Web content or agents to
act on those descriptions. A brief document outlining the advantages offered by POWDER compared with PICS is <a href="/2009/08/pics_superseded.html">available
separately</a>.</p>



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links to the most recent version of a document.
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      <h2 id="completed">Completed Work</h2>
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         <a href="/TR/tr-technology-stds">W3C Recommendations</a> have
	been reviewed by W3C Members, by software developers, and by other
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         <a href="/2005/10/Process-20051014/tr.html#q75">Group Notes</a> are <em>not</em> standards and do not
	have the same level of W3C endorsement.</p>
      <h3 id="stds">Standards</h3>
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                  <td class="table_datecol">
                     <a href="../history/REC-PICS-labels" title="PICS 1.1 Label Distribution -- Label Syntax and Communication Protocols publication history">2009-11-24</a>
                  </td>
                  <td>
                     <h4 class="w3c_status_title">
                        <a title="status is REC" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/REC-PICS-labels-20091124">PICS 1.1 Label Distribution -- Label Syntax and Communication Protocols</a>
                     </h4>
                     <div class="expand_description">
                        <p>PICS has been superseded by <a href="http://www.w3.org/standards/techs/powder" shape="rect">
                              <abbr title="Protocol for Web Description Resources">POWDER</abbr>
                           </a>.
			Developers and other interested parties are referred to the POWDER document suite, in particular the 
			<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/powder-primer/" shape="rect">Primer</a> and <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/powder-dr/" shape="rect">POWDER: Description Resources</a>.</p>
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                  <td>
                     <a href="../history/REC-PICS-services" title="PICS 1.1 Rating Services and Rating Systems -- and Their Machine Readable Descriptions publication history">2009-11-24</a>
                  </td>
                  <td>
                     <h4 class="w3c_status_title">
                        <a title="status is REC" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/REC-PICS-services-20091124">PICS 1.1 Rating Services and Rating Systems -- and Their Machine Readable Descriptions</a>
                     </h4>
                     <div class="expand_description">
                        <p>PICS has been superseded by <a href="http://www.w3.org/standards/techs/powder" shape="rect">
                              <abbr title="Protocol for Web Description Resources">POWDER</abbr>
                           </a>.
			Like PICS, POWDER encodes descriptions that can be applied to single resources or defined groups. Unlike PICS, the
			descriptions themselves are encoded in <a href="http://www.w3.org/standards/techs/rdf" shape="rect">
                              <abbr title="Resource Description Framework">RDF</abbr>
                           </a>. Developers of ratings services are advised to encode their
			descriptive vocabularies in RDF, taking note of <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/swbp-vocab-pub/" shape="rect">Best Practice Recipes for Publishing RDF Vocabularies</a>.</p>
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                  <td>
                     <a href="../history/REC-PICSRules" title="PICSRules 1.1 Specification publication history">2009-11-24</a>
                  </td>
                  <td>
                     <h4 class="w3c_status_title">
                        <a title="status is REC" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/REC-PICSRules-20091124">PICSRules 1.1 Specification</a>
                     </h4>
                     <div class="expand_description">
                        <p>PICS has been superseded by <a href="http://www.w3.org/standards/techs/powder" shape="rect">
                              <abbr title="Protocol for Web Description Resources">POWDER</abbr>
                           </a>.
			Developers of applications for which the inferencing capability inherent within POWDER and POWDER-S are are insufficient or inappropriate are
			advised to explore the <a href="http://www.w3.org/standards/techs/rif" shape="rect">Rule Interchange Format</a>.</p>
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                  <td>
                     <a href="../history/REC-DSig-label" title="PICS Signed Labels (DSig) 1.0 Specification publication history">2009-11-24</a>
                  </td>
                  <td>
                     <h4 class="w3c_status_title">
                        <a title="status is REC" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/REC-DSig-label-20091124">PICS Signed Labels (DSig) 1.0 Specification</a>
                     </h4>
                     <div class="expand_description">
                        <p>PICS has been superseded by <a href="http://www.w3.org/standards/techs/powder" shape="rect">
                              <abbr title="Protocol for Web Description Resources">POWDER</abbr>
                           </a>.
			POWDER documents, which are encoded in XML, may be signed using <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xmldsig-core/" shape="rect">XML Signature Syntax and Processing</a>.</p>
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      <h2 id="obsolete">Obsolete Specifications</h2>
      <p>These specifications have either been superseded by others,
      or have been abandoned. They remain available for archival
      purposes, but are not intended to be used.</p>
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	    Retired
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                     <a href="../history/WD-DSIG-label-arch" title="Digital Signature Label Architecture publication history">1997-06-10</a>
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                     <h4 class="w3c_status_title">
                        <a title="status is RETIRED" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-DSIG-label-arch-970610">Digital Signature Label Architecture</a>
                     </h4>
                     <div class="expand_description">
                        <p>The vision set out in this document was superseded by the development of the <a href="http://www.w3.org/standards/semanticweb/" shape="rect">Semantic Web</a>.</p>
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