The design is... well it isn't... no excuse but it's suppose to be hidden behind some UI ofc.
Why do I need it anyway? In case I forget who is my mum?
If I ask you for an organized list of your friends, coworkers, relatives etc along with contact details. Would you be likely to share it without asking why?
Sounds like something that should be illegal.
If mum has a public website with her short stories, reading list and her crafts on it one should write a blog post about it. You could also put the vCards in an RSS feed but it wouldn't be as interesting.
I read the topic more like Rum as an alternative for Whiskey
I don’t understand your comment. Do you ask me why do you need FOAF? I have no idea who would need it. This format without a protocol is useless.
Or do you mean, why would you need a protocol? I don’t know your use cases either, but many people have them, preferring to keep certain interactions and content from public eye. A simple website wouldn’t work. Access management and context-specific permissions are needed. A way to request them too.
This topic is more like tomato paste as an alternative for curry chicken with jasmine rice. You can eat it, but the real meal has many more ingredients.
Sounds about right. Part of the access management is doable without adding ingredients. You can add more than one feed. Each public scope can have its own feed. You can have as many kinds of tomato paste as you like.
Maybe you could define the curry, the chicken and the rice more specifically so that we can ponder the availability of something like those ingredients?
Where exactly in those specs do you see possibility to say „A is friend of B“?