Internet Content Rating Association

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April 1997 – PointCast joins growing list of RSACi Sponsors – incorporates system into product

July 1997 – Launch of the International Working Group on Content Rating in Bonn, Germany – members include Internet Watch Foundation (UK); Childnet International (UK); Electronic Commerce Forum (Germany); RSAC and Australian Broadcasting Authority

July 1997 – RSACi featured at first White House Internet Summit

July 1997 – IBM joins as Corporate Partner of RSACi – integrates system within proxy server product

September 1997 – Inaugural meeting of International Working Group on Content Rating, Bagshot, England – plans to establish an internationally acceptable rating system and to establish the Internet Content Rating Association proposed

December 1997 – second White House Internet Summit – pros & cons of RSACi system hotly debated

December 1997 – over 50,000 sites rated with RSACi