Fwd: Policy Commons

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> From: Renato Iannella <renato@nicta.com.au>
> Date: 3 June 2009 16:30:37 GMT+10:00
> To: public-xg-socialweb@w3.org
> Subject: Policy Commons
>
>
> Dear all, one of the interesting themes from the Trust and Privacy  
> on the Social and Semantic Web (SPOT 2009) Workshop [1] this week  
> was the recognition of the need to "simplify" the complexity of  
> policies for your typical Web 2.0 user. A sort of "Policy Commons"  
> is needed that captures a hand-full of typical policies (covering  
> privacy and permissions) that will enable the user to choose from a  
> consistent set of polices across social networks.
>
> To begin this investigation, we can look at the popular Social  
> Networks and summarise the main concepts used to describe their  
> polices. I have began this for FaceBook and Flickr [2] to get the  
> ball rolling. Please feel free to add and expand this wiki page. We  
> can then look at commonalities and potential "policy commons" options.
>
> Cheers...  Renato Iannella
> NICTA
>
> [1] <http://spot2009.semanticweb.org/program>
> [2] < http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/socialweb/wiki/PolicyCommons >
>

Cheers...  Renato Iannella
NICTA