Classification

Multilevel Classifications

Traditional classification systems are single level only e.g.

Basic Classifications

Basic Classifications should be as univesal as possible

Everything can be assigned a basic classification (currently a number from 1 to 8) that

Warn

  1. malicious - 8
    e.g. malware, fraud, phishing

  2. proxy - 7
    e.g. vpn, proxy, anonymizer

  3. unsolicited - 6
    e.g. junk email

Indirect

  1. broadcast - 5
    e.g. news, video, short url, search, classifieds, auction

  2. transaction - 4
    e.g. email, messaging, voice, storage

Direct

  1. commercial - 3
    e.g. bank

  2. non-commercial - 2
    e.g. family

  3. government - 1
    e.g. hospital

Content Classifications

Everything can be assigned a basic classification (currently a number from 1 to 8)

  1. productive
    e.g. banking, health

  2. leisure
    e.g. gaming, movies

  3. adult
    e.g. gambling, drug, sexual, torture, self-harm

  4. abuse
    e.g. hate, discrimination

  5. false
    e.g. lies, falsehood, crypto, astrology

  6. religious
    e.g. including a

Netify Example

Netify service categories are not well defined, below is a very rough mapping.

Netify 88.io ID
Adult adult 2
Advertiser advertiser 3
Arts and Entertainment leisure 4
Business business 5
Career and Education business 6
CDN proxy 35
Cybersecurity business 30
Device/IoT business 33
File Sharing communication 10
Financial business 9
Gambling adult 11
Games leisure 12
Government government 13
Hosting proxy 36
ISP/Telco infrastructure 37
Mail infrastructure 15
Malware malware 16
Messaging communication 17
News communication 18
OS/Software Updates infrastructure 31
Portal infrastructure 19
Recreation leisure 20
Reference communication 21
Remote Desktop infrastructure 34
Shopping business 23
Social Media communication 24
Sports communication 26
Streaming Media communication 29
Technology business 27
VoIP/Conferencing communication 32
VPN and Proxy proxy 28

Protocol

All Netify protocol category can be mapped into 88.io's "infrastructure" category

Name Tag ID
Authentication authentication 17
Database database 2
File Server file-server 4
File Sharing file-sharing 5
Games games 7
Infrastructure infrastructure 9
Mail mail 11
Media media 12
Media Provider media-provider 13
Messaging messaging 24
Networking networking 14
Printing printing 25
Proxy proxy 16
Remote Desktop remote-desktop 18
VoIP/Conferencing voip 20
VPN vpn 21
Web web 22

OpenDNS