ICRA -The Internet Content Rating Association
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The Internet Content Rating Association (ICRA)
is an independent, non-profit organization
established in the Spring of 1999. In 2000 they launched their current rating
system. It is more detailed then the RSACi system was and allows for more
flexibility in labeling a web site.
The ICRA Rating System depends on webmasters filling out a
questionnaire. The questionnaire
asked specific questions about the page content found within the webmaster's site. The questionnaire
would be submitted to the ICRA web server which would respond with the
appropriate HTML content advisory tags.
An Internet browser configured to read the ICRA Rating System
can recognize these tags. Web pages would be displayed if they met the criteria selected by the user (parent, school, etc.).
The Content Advisor in Microsoft's Internet Explorer supports the ICRA
system by using a icra.rat file. The rat (RATing) file contains the rating system
information that the browser can use to compare against the HTML content tags
found on a rated web page. By default the browser looks for the rating files in
the C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM folder. IIf your system doesn't have the file you can download
the rsaci.rat file and save it to your WINDOWS\SYSTEM subdirectory.
ICRA has very detailed directions for installing their rat file in Internet Explorer's
Content Advisor.
Browse the Web with Content Advisor
is Microsoft's How-to directions for activating the Internet Explorer 6 content
advisor.
ICRA has also developed a filter (ICRAfilter)
that they freely distribute.
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