FOAF privacy

An interesting discussion is developing on the publication of your networks of contacts (or friends) [Ben Hammersley: FOAF stuff]. You can not really publish your network: your friend might not allow it. It is part of his privacy domain, so publication must be granted by both participants in the relation. And their must also be a way to hide your contact details from email address harvesters.

Personal related content is owned by the person in question and he/she determines who will get access, which can also be revoked at any time. For relationship knowledge two persons are involved. The question is whether anything of a relationship can be published. Ben Hammersley only want to publish the mailbox-hashes. They seem to argue that this is a good hook into a person, which only that person can grab and open. The hash is thus an anonymous unique identifier.