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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.

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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.

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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. 

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Policy Briefs

Our perspective on critical Internet issues, including community networks, encryption, open Internet standards, Internet Exchange Points, and more.

Internet Society Submission for the ITU World Conference on International Telecommunication Regulations (WCIT-12)

The Internet Society (ISOC) is a non-profit organization dedicated to ensuring the open development, evolution, and use of the Internet for the benefit of all people throughout the world. Since ...

Who is following me: tracking the trackers (part 2)

An update to the background paper for a workshop being co-organised by the Council of Europe and the Internet Society at the Internet Governance Forum in Baku, Azerbaijan on 8 November 2012 ...

Internet Interconnections Proposals For New Interconnection Model Comes Up Short

[Editor's note: This document was prepared in advance of the World Conference on International Telecommunication Regulations (WCIT-12) in 2012. Please see our full list of resources ...

Internet Governance in Kenya – An assessment

This report describes and assesses the national environment for Internet governance in Kenya in April 2012, with some supplementary material from the meeting of the Kenya Internet ...

Data Privacy on a global scale: keeping pace with an evolving environment

A report from a roundtable organised by the Internet Society at the WSIS Forum on 16 May 2012 at Geneva, Switzerland. The WSIS Forum 2012 offered a timely opportunity to bring together insights ...

Assessing National Internet Governance Arrangements

This report is the first of two pieces of work by ict Development Associates (ictDA) for the Internet Society (ISOC). It proposes a framework for the assessment of national ...

Assessment of the impact of Internet Exchange Points (IXPs) – empirical study of Kenya and Nigeria

This study quantifies for the first time how IXPs enable Kenya and Nigeria to save millions in telecommunications costs and raise additional revenues in these countries while simultaneously speeding local data exchange, ...

Internet Society comment to WCIT Preparations: February 2012

The Internet Society, an ITU Sector Member, provided these comments to the ITU preparatory process for the WCIT ...

International Chapter Toolkit: Tools for Mobilizing Volunteers

Introduction
If you are like many Internet Society Chapter leaders, you are thinking about the best ways to mobilize your members into an effective team that can deliver successful programmes ...

The Relationship Between Local Content, Internet Development, and Access Prices

Report from the Internet Society, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)

1. Societies ...

The Future of Privacy IGF workshop report

A report from a workshop co-organised by the Internet Society (ISOC) and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) at the 2010 Internet Governance Forum (IGF). As countries around the world are ...

Open Inter-networking

The modern Internet features increasing complexity of uses and demand for bandwidth. The Internet Society believes that an Internet access environment characterized by choice and transparency, ...

Archives

IPv6 Address Planning

When starting out with IPv6, it is helpful to plan out how you are going to allocate your IPv6 addresses across your various networks and subnets.  Reasons for creating an ...

IPv6 Address Planning: Guidelines for IPv6 address allocation

IP address planning is certainly among the critical functions required within the overall process of planning and executing an IPv6 deployment project. After all, one needs IPv6 address space in ...

Initial Longitudinal Analysis of IP Source Spoofing Capability on the Internet

Robert Beverly, Ryan Koga, kc claffy The Spoofer project originated in 2005 as the result of discussions over the general ability to successfully send spoofed-source IP packets across the Internet. At the ...

David Freedman: Why I’m Practicing Anti-Spoofing

David Freedman, ClaraNet Many years ago, a number of security and “hacking” sites carried some form of “IP Spoofing Tool”. I always thought this was a strange thing since, unless ...

Benno Overeinder: Measuring Spoofed Traffic

During the RIPE 66 Anti-Spoofing Panel, a central question where all discussion should start with, is do we have reliable measurements of spoofed traffic? Only with measurements of spoofed traffic ...

Anti-Spoofing: Continuing the Dialogue

ShieldAt the RIPE66 meeting in mid-May 2013, Benno Overeinder from NLNetLabs and Andrei Robachevsky from the Internet Society organized a panel called "Seven Years of Anti-Spoofing: What Happened Since the ...

Understanding Security and Resilience of the Internet

Cybersecurity is a rather vague overarching term that is used in different contexts to mean anything from: “information and computer security”; security of the Internet infrastructure; security of anything connected ...

Average price per GB of traffic in Sub-Saharan Africa for Internet access

Lower prices for Internet access are Important because they:

  • are evidence of a more competitive market that is relatively free of bottlenecks
  • can generate a virtuous circle by attracting ...

DNSSEC Test Sites

If you have a new application or service where you want to test how DNSSEC validation works, the sites listed below are ones you can use.  If you want to ...

Internet Society Issues Paper on Intellectual Property on the Internet

Français | Español Author: Konstantinos Komaitis, Director, Policy Development Over the past years, the idea of how to reconcile intellectual property rights and the Internet technologies and platforms has become a pivotal ...

Discussion paper on the contribution of the Internet to content creation

The Internet is a platform that is ideal for the distribution of digital content such as music or video. In general, given that the Internet empowers technology at its edges, ...

Making Content Available Over IPv6

The Internet has run out of unused IPv4 addresses. Some regions of the world still have some local supply left but it is a matter of time until those ...

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.

See the Reports