Local Control over Filtered WWW Access

Abstract

Thispaper describes a software system called Signet thatprovides local control over restricting access to resources on the World Wide Web TWWWf The strategy is to make it easyfor 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 accesspermissions ofthe 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 IWTU materials can proceed in a distributedfashion.