1. © Lehr, 2015 Mobile Broadband Working Group Spectrum Policy Working Group William Lehr MIT wlehr@mit.edu CFP Responsible Innovation Meeting MIT April 18, 2015

2. © Lehr, 2015 A perspective on responsible Internet innovation… It’s about the eco-system, not just the technology Technology  Business models/markets  Policy must CO-EVOLVE Policy challenge is COORDINATION (not market power) Decentralized, distributed: lots of good ideas from all levels/directions Open: entry of new ideas possible Interoperable: systems are mix-n-match bundles of stuff (Efficient: economizes on resources) What is the (eco-system) Control Plane for the Internet? Smart’s everywhere (automated, unaware, connected) Mobile, wireless (hence MBWG and SpecWG…) 2

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5. IoT: control plane for real/virtual convergence? How to innovate responsibly? Open (inclusive), Distributed (free choice), Interoperable, (Equitable) Lots of visions: how to get there from here… Architectures: where are the control points? Payments: Bitcoin and virtual currencies Cloud support: 5G, NFV Access: fixed/mobile convergence, interconnection 5

6. © Lehr, 2015 Spectrum Access System (SAS): control plane for shared spectrum management 6 6 Today: -- static, inflexible, uninformative Tomorrow: -- dynamic, flexible, informative Tiered rights regimes -- Licensed  Unlicensed is continuum -- Need better co-existence than exclusion -- lots tech/standards/infrastructure…. WHERE is the battleground? -- e.g., 3.5, 5GHz, LTE-U, Incentive Auctions, etc. …

7. © Lehr, 2015 7 #@ $ Coordination! Bad or good coordination!