3FOOD

Third Industrial Revolution Consulting Group
Finding the best possible compromise between these two conflicting elements is a very
important issue that should be tackled at the European level: the LUX-TIR Net Neutrality
initiative aims at contributing to this effort with a study on defining a regulatory framework
that will allow both content agnostic-network operation and smart QoE provisions. These
apparently conflicting goals should be addressed with an end-to-end approach in mind,
very similar to the concept that brought to life the Internet itself. The regulatory
framework should be layered, with neutrality increasing towards the lower layers of the
regulatory stack. The Net Neutrality initiative could be defined in the first half of 2017 and
run for one year, until mid-2018.
3.4 Develop a LUX-TIR Digital Rights Declaration and Accompanying Regulations. The Third
Industrial Revolution will bring to life new forms of society, with the coexistence of human
beings and advanced forms of artificial intelligence, anthropomorphic and nonanthropomorphic.
Interconnections between humans and things will constitute the fabric
of interaction, information exchange, transactions, and decision making. Exclusion from
this network of interconnections will be a new kind of impoverishment and injustice. A
definition of the concept of digital rights, which is a subject of active debate today, will be
necessary as well as the definition of a regulatory framework to ensure that these digital
rights are guaranteed to all. As for the previous point, this is an issue that must be tackled
at the European level. The LUX-TIR Digital Rights project aims at exploring what
contribution Luxembourg can make to this fundamental issue, taking advantage of its small
size and sovereignty. The overall objective could be to make Luxembourg a flagship in the
domain of Digital Rights provision. The widespread ICT infrastructure which is available
today is an excellent starting point to eliminate any forms of digital divide. Definition of the
Digital Rights strategy for Luxembourg could be completed by the first quarter of 2017.
Ensuing actions could follow in the next three years.
3.5 LUX-TIR Future Spectrum. One of the critical elements of the 5G network will be the
exploitation of the millimeter-wave spectrum for ultra-broadband interconnections with
peak data rates up to 10 Gbit/s. Several frequency bands in the range from 27 to 86 GHz
have been designated during the World-Radio Conference 2015 (WRC-15) to study their
possible application to future 5G networks. Final decisions will be made at the next World-
Radio Conference in 2019, WRC-19. In view of the LUX-TIR 5G project described above,
Luxembourg can take a proactive regulatory approach to the spectrum. The LUX-TIR future
spectrum project aims at the identification of specific portions of the millimeter-wave
spectrum to be used for experimentation over the Luxembourg territory. This project only
makes sense in conjunction with the LUX-TIR 5G and LUX-TIR satellite 5G initiatives. In
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