What are the benefits to consumers?
- Single relationship with "most-trusted" publisher/provider
- local news organization
- national publisher (magazine, newsapaer, broadcaster)
- topic-specific content service
- Internet service provider or telco
- Single ID access to universe of resources
- Personal privacy respected
- Demographics, topical-interests stay with "must-trusted" publisher
- Single-bill access to chargeable information
- Personalization starting point
- Market-oriented fee structure
- free content (subsidized access)
- subscription (partial subsidy)
- per-query charging (no subsidy)