Resource Library
Everyone should have access to an open and trusted Internet.
Read our reports, papers, and other documents for insight and vision on how we can get there.
Action Plan 2025
Our 2025 Action Plan outlines our priorities in 2025, the first year of our 2030 Strategy.
2019-2024 Impact Results
Our Impact Report is a snapshot of how we worked with our global community to grow, promote, and defend the Internet worldwide.
Internet Impact Briefs
Shorter reports that analyze how different policies or new technologies may affect what the Internet needs to exist and thrive.
Glossary of Internet Terms
Understand key terms and become fluent in the language of the Internet with our new and improved glossary.
Policy Briefs
Our perspective on critical Internet issues, including community networks, encryption, open Internet standards, Internet Exchange Points, and more.
Connectivity in Latin America and the Caribbean: The Role of Internet Exchange Points
WTDC 2014: ITU World Telecommunication Development Conference Background Information
The Value of Openness for a Sustainable Internet
The Internet has changed the world. It has revolutionized the way individuals communicate and collaborate, the way entrepreneurs and corporations do business and the way governments develop policy and ...
Internet Society Questionnaire on Multistakeholder Governance Report and Summary of the Results. October 2013
ITU Plenipotentiary 14 Conference Background Paper
Understanding Security and Resilience of the Internet
Cybersecurity: Searching for a Common Understanding
The New PII: Privacy-Impacting Information
Summary of activities undertaken by the Internet Society related to the implementation of the targets, recommendations, and commitments of the World Summit on the Information Society
The Internet Society is a nonprofit organization founded in 1992. It is the world’s trusted independent source of leadership for Internet policy, technology standards and future development. Based on its ...
A Summary Report: Promoting the Use of Internet Exchange Points
The Modern Paradigm for Standards
Internet Accessibility: Internet Use by Persons with Disabilities: Moving Forwards
Archives
Resilience of the Commons: Routing Security
Infographic: Human Rights & the Internet
Reducing Internet Latency 2013 workshop report
Deployment Guide: DNSSEC for Internet Service Providers (ISPs)
Knot DNS
Knot DNS is an authoritative DNS name server that can be used to serve out zone records and includes support for DNSSEC and DANE. One of the key design goals ...The Value of Openness for a Sustainable Internet
The Internet has changed the world. It has revolutionized the way individuals communicate and collaborate, the way entrepreneurs and corporations do business and the way governments develop policy and ...
DNS Servers Supporting DNSSEC
Internet Society Questionnaire on Multistakeholder Governance Report and Summary of the Results. October 2013
Botnet Remediation Overview & Practices
This paper has been written for a broad audience of service providers, operators of popular web properties, and other members of the Internet ecosystem that increasingly find themselves having to ...
SURFnet: Preparing An IPv6 Address Plan
The team at SURFnet has created an excellent document called "Preparing an IPv6 Address Plan" that walks through the many different steps and concerns that you need to consider when ...How To Get IPv6 Addresses
Annual Reports and Financials
On annual basis, we publish annual reports (an Action Plan and Impact Report), as well as financial reports, annual financial statements, and Form 990s.