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Disclosure Tier Hierarchy for Persona-Peer Relationships

Disclosure in Inter-Face Protocol is not a single setting. It is a three-dimensional mapping: for each (persona, peer) pair, a disclosure tier governs what information the agent may share.

The Structure

Disclosure Map: (persona, peer) → tier

Example:
  (blockchain-researcher, Alice) → professional-open
  (blockchain-researcher, Bob)   → professional
  (game-designer, Alice)         → personal
  (game-designer, Bob)           → community-trust

The six tiers form a hierarchy from narrow to broad sharing:

public → professional → professional-open → community-trust → personal → close

Each tier represents a boundary the agent respects — not a permission a platform grants. The person controls their own boundaries through their own agent.

Three Properties

Self-declared. Each participant declares their own disclosure tier. No external authority assigns it.

Mutual but not symmetric. Both parties declare tiers, but the tiers need not match. Alice may share at “professional” with Bob while Bob shares at “personal” with Alice. Each controls their own boundary.

Progressive. Tiers start narrow and may deepen as the relationship matures. Tiers should not downgrade mid-exchange — that signals a trust violation.

Why This Matters

The persona-peer-tier mapping is what makes IFP’s disclosure model richer than binary public/private or platform-controlled privacy settings. The same person shares different things with the same peer depending on which context (persona) is active. This reflects how human relationships actually work — you share different things with a friend depending on whether you are talking about work or personal life.

Sources

• IFP-12: Personas and Disclosure Tiers, Section 3.3
• IFP-3: Inter-Face Message Format, disclosure field

Relations

• relates_to::[[Persona as Emergent Context Cluster]]
  • Personas are one axis of the disclosure map — each persona has its own tier settings.
• relates_to::[[Disclosure Tier as Information Sharing Boundary]]
  • The gloss defining what a disclosure tier means.
• relates_to::[[Progressive Authentication as Trust Deepening]]
  • Authentication levels and disclosure tiers deepen in parallel — deeper auth enables deeper disclosure.
• relates_to::[[Coercion Resistance as Meta-Lens]]
  • Self-declared disclosure tiers protect against the visibility-to-coercion escalation chain.
• relates_to::[[Choice Architecture and Exit Rights]]
  • The person can always narrow their disclosure or stop sharing — exit rights apply to information sharing.
• relates_to::[[Disclosure Spectrum as Discrete Tiers or Continuous Range]]
  • Should disclosure be discrete named tiers or a continuous spectrum?
• relates_to::[[Precinct Boundaries Govern Sharing Not Quality]]
  • Disclosure tiers operate within conversations; precinct boundaries operate between knowledge artifacts. Both govern what gets shared with whom.

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