On Nov 16, 2014, at 11:10 PM, John Levine <johnl(_at_)taugh(_dot_)com> wrote:
Here's a concrete suggestion: the Bing search engine and IE browser
support this safe flag right now. Could you talk to the people
responsible for them and ask whether they considered more fine grained
schemes such as PICS, and why they implemented a single bit instead?
Or, I can go to their website and see that their “bit" implements ternary
logic:
Bing implements the exact proposal in this I-D. (The I-D says so.)
If you believe otherwise, please provide references.
Reference? Just see the screenshot of the Bing preferences page:
https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/attach/ietf/pngkwLXzM.png
So a single bit value might get you to the “moderate” or “strict” settings,
even if your profile says that you would like “off”, but that’s not what they
want. If they wanted a strictly on/off switch, they would implement it in their
profiles, just as Google did.
Yoav
