One benefit to this model is it fixes the way we currently handle things like contacts. Right now if you have my phone number on your phone and my number chang

One benefit to this model is it fixes the way we currently handle things like contacts. Right now if you have my phone number on your phone and my number changes you have stale data. If I don't want you to have my number anymore there isn't a great way to do much about that. If you're allowing/removing access to a pod you host then when you update your phone number all of the people with access will get that updated information. You can also more easily remove access from people.