Devkit schemas

.gitignore

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-*.DS_Store
+*.DS_Store.DS_Store
+refs/schemas/prif/dictionary/.DS_Store
+.DS_Store

decisions/README.md

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 > SMART Goals, Decisions Records and RFCs for blindnet products management
 
-- [NN-XXXX](./NN-XXXX-mmmm.md) - Title
+## Decisions Records
+
+- Yet to be made
+
+## RFCs
+
+- [RFC-PRIV](../ref/schemas/priv/RFC-PRIV.md) - Privacy Request Interchange Vocabulary
+- [RFC-Lexicon-2](../ref/lexicon/RFC-Lexicon-2.md) - Lexicon used across blindnet devkit documents
+- [HLA](../ref/high-level-architecture) - High Level Architecture of blindnet devkit
+
+
+## Old Format
+
+- [Product Design Choices](../ref/Product-design-choices.md) - Design choices common to all blindnet products
+- [Product Design Principles](../ref/Product-design-principles.md) - Design principles that blindnet applies
+- [HLC](../ref/high-level-conceptualization) - High Level Conceptualization. Key Concepts of the blindnet devkit
+
+
+## Guidelines
 
 For new documents, please use our [templates](https://github.com/blindnet-io/openness-framework/tree/main/DecisionFramework/templates) as basis.
 For more information, refer to our [Decision Framework](https://github.com/blindnet-io/openness-framework/tree/main/DecisionFramework).

refs/notion-of-privacy/notion-of-privacy.md

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 Among the many definitions proposed in scientific literature, we use the following one:
 
-> « **Privacy is the selective control of access to the self** » &msdash; _Irwin Altman[^1]_
+> « **Privacy is the selective control of access to the self** » — _Irwin Altman[^1]_
 
-This definition captures the essential features of the concept, in particular:
+This definition captures the essential features of the concept, in particular the following.
+
+### Privacy is about the **self**.
 
-- Privacy is about the **self**.
 
 The _self_ is a very important element of human experience playing _"an integral part in human motivation, cognition, affect, and social identity"_[^2].
 
@@ -29,11 +30,12 @@ Also, undoubtedly, in part _"the self emerges through interaction with others"_[
 Due to the relational provenance of the knowledge of the self, privacy is one of the key features of the relationship of oneself with the surrounding world (other humans and artefacts) through which the knowledge of the self is formed.
 Privacy is a "factor of connection to oneself and to others"[^6].
 
-- Privacy is about **control of access**.
+### Privacy is about **control of access**.
 
 As relationships play a key role in shaping the view on the self, it is of crucial importance for the individual to control the access to self, and thus maintain control over their own view of the self.
 
-- Privacy is **selective**.
+### Privacy is **selective**.
+
 
 It is not an absolute binary "come in" vs. "go away".
 It is a nuanced choice to control access to parts of the _self_.
@@ -65,20 +67,22 @@ Humans are social species, hardwired for connection.
 
 > « **Connection is the energy that exists between people when they feel seen, heard and valued; when they can give and receive without judgement; and when they derive sustenance and strength from the relationship.** » — _Brené Brown_
 
-Connection is crucial to development; without it, social animals experience distress and face severe developmental consequences[^10]. 
-Yet, connection can also expose the individual to existential vulnerabilities. 
+Connection is crucial to development; without it, social animals experience distress and face severe developmental consequences[^10].
+Yet, connection can also expose the individual to existential vulnerabilities.
+
 
 The risk associated with connection has to be managed.
 Without privacy, the need for connection conflicts with the goal of protecting vital interests.
 Connection is **not** possible without privacy.
 
 <img width="900" alt="connectedness" src="./img/connectedness.png">
 
-Privacy is not the opposite of connectedness. 
+Privacy is not the opposite of connectedness.
 
 Connectedness exists on the continuum between fusion and isolation.
-Fusion is the state of total absence of boundaries and separateness. 
-Isolation is the psychological equivalent of death. 
+Fusion is the state of total absence of boundaries and separateness.
+Isolation is the psychological equivalent of death.
+
 It leads to loneliness - correlated with negative effects on health[^11].
 
 Humans need connectedness to avoid isolation. Privacy regulates connectedness to avoid fusion (where there is not enough separateness for anything to need connecting).
@@ -141,7 +145,8 @@ Repetetive exposure to technological limitations[^19], as well as the privacy pa
 The privacy paradox is a phenomenon in which online users state that they are concerned about their privacy but behave as if they were not.[^12]
 Anecdotal and empirical evidence indicates that individuals are willing to trade their personal information for relatively small rewards[^14].
 
-However, as we have seen, privacy regulates the conflict of the need for connection with the need for competition, survival and overcoming the power diferential.Habits, and other needs, indeniably play a role in the persons choice of privacy related behavior and may yeald behavior inconsistent with the persons beliefs and interests (as outlined by the _privacy paradox_)[^18].
+However, as we have seen, privacy regulates the conflict of the need for connection with the need for competition, survival and overcoming the power diferential. Habits, and other needs, indeniably play a role in the persons choice of privacy related behavior and may yield behavior inconsistent with the persons beliefs and interests (as outlined by the _privacy paradox_)[^18].
+
 
 The existence of the privacy paradox is not indicative of a false concern for privacy, but rather of the context not favoring behavior aligned with this concern, as is common with attitude-behavior gap[^13].
 Researchers consider privacy-oblivious behavior to be a result of technological limitations as much as a consequence of users' deficiencies[^19].
@@ -151,7 +156,7 @@ Researchers consider privacy-oblivious behavior to be a result of technological
 
 ### Internet Systems are Tools For Connection
 
-The rise of Internet Systems and of the Web[^29] is inspired by the concept of Memex, proposed by Vannevar Bush in 1945 in his article *As We May Think*[^25]. Memex is imagined as a tehorethical machine that humans can use to augment their cognitive powers. Memex can store information and provide access to it at later times. Also Memex is collaborative, as it can facilitate access to information provided by others - a *collective memory-extension tool*.
+The rise of Internet Systems and of the Web[^29] is inspired by the concept of Memex, proposed by Vannevar Bush in 1945 in his article *As We May Think*[^25]. Memex is imagined as a theoretical machine that humans can use to augment their cognitive powers. Memex can store information and provide access to it at later times. Also Memex is collaborative, as it can facilitate access to information provided by others - a *collective memory-extension tool*.
 
 Memex was the inspiration for:
 - NLS[^26], a system that used the early internet infrastructure to demonstrate the pioneering use of videoconferencing, collaborative document editing, hypermedia, document version control and many other concepts prevalent in modern Internet Systems. Developed in 1968, by Doug Engelbart, it was the first system to implement practical use of hypertext links[^27] for connecting information
@@ -176,9 +181,10 @@ In essence, the available knowledge teaches us the following:
 - **Privacy is the selective control of access to the self**
 - **Properly designed computer systems put the user in control**
 - **Privacy enables sustainable connection and trust (choosing to make something important to you vulnerable to the actions of someone else)**
-- **Connectedness is dysfunctional without privacy** 
+- **Connectedness is dysfunctional without privacy**
+
+Therefore, we believe that a properly designed Internet System is designed for Privacy-enabled Connectedness.
 
-Therefore, we believe that a properly designed Internet System is designed for Privacy-enabled Connectedness. 
 
 The Privacy-enabled Connectedness is achieved through the following design principles: