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The Digital Media Project |
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Philip Merrill |
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Title |
TRU #72 to access information about content |
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040216merrill04 |
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Name: |
Philip Merrill |
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Affiliation/additional information: |
Active Contributor, Pasadena, California |
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Date submitted: |
2004/02/16 |
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Criteria |
Description |
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Name of TRU |
TRU to access information about content |
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Summary description of TRU |
traditionally users have enjoyed the possibility to find descriptions of available content to guide their purchasing/viewing/listening/educational decisions |
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Use records of TRU |
FCC Chairman Powell on Feb 8 said, "consumers should receive meaningful information regarding their service plans. Simply put, such information is necessary to ensure that the market is working. Providers have every right to offer a variety of service tiers with varying bandwidth and feature options. Consumers need to know about these choices as well as whether and how their service plans protect them against spam, spyware and other potential invasions of privacy. " |
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4. |
Nature of TRU |
Put forward in a speech by Michael K. Powell, Chairman of the FCC at the Silicon Flatirons Symposium February 8, 2004 http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-243556A1.doc |
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Benefits of TRU |
Recommended for consumers to demand from their choice of broadband service provider |
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6. |
Possible digital support |
The support for information about content addresses a number of interests almost simultaneously. For one thing, there is what a home user might want to keep track of privately. There is also most obviously the availability on the device of information about what the device and its associated content are actually costing each consumer, so they can budget their use and avoid "sticker shock". |
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7. |
Requirements |
Determine
to what extent the specifications for this are part of the RQ phase versus
the conformance phase.
Provide support for service plan availability of data. |
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References |