Internet Impact Assessment Online Tool

How do you know if a particular policy, development, or trend threatens the Internet’s foundation? Will the policy you have in mind benefit from a more in-depth Internet Impact Assessment?

We can help! We would love to know about cases that could impact the Internet’s foundation. Fill out the questionnaire below to find out if a particular policy, development, or trend may impact the Internet, and get in touch with us with a description of your case.

By answering the questions in the questionnaire, we’ll be able to guide you with a recommendation on next steps.

*For an overview of technical concepts mentioned below, please consult this glossary by opening it a separate tab.

Questionnaire

Q1. Does your case relate to one of the following issues?*

Select all that apply.

Data localization
Intermediary liability
Interconnection and routing
Content filtering
No, I don’t think so.

Q2. Does the development make connecting to the Internet easier or more difficult?

For example, if there are increasing requirements to ask permissions to connect to the Internet.

Q3. Could your case impact, limit or improve global connectivity?

For example, if there are networks that can become unreachable because of this development.

Q4. Does your case create fragmentation in the common IP infrastructure?

For example, if networks need complex gateways to be able to connect and communicate with the rest of the Internet. In fact, the gateway is the only device fully connected to the Internet, acting as a proxy for the network behind.

Q5. Does your case hinder or stimulate the growth of networks (in size and numbers)?

Q6. Does your case affect interoperability of services and applications across networks?

For example, by blocking certain protocols (HTTPS, TLS) or services (VPN) across a set of independent networks.

Q7. Does your case unilaterally modify the properties of a technology “building block”?

For example, by introducing proprietary extensions to a protocol, public API or a commonly used specification.

Q8. Does your case provide for the creation of any authority that could centralise oversight over parts of the Internet’s technical development?

For example, through the creation of a national regulator, or giving additional regulatory powers to one governing body.

Q9. Does your case impact the autonomy of individual networks?

For example, by dictating how and where the networks interconnect, their routing policy or internal design.

Q10. Does your case demand permission for certain changes and innovations?

For example, by requiring permission from the ISP or a transit provider for running certain services or passing certain type of traffic (beyond common technical and security controls).

Q11. Does your case affect the decentralized nature of Internet routing?

For example, regulations that impose specific routing requirements or constrain the voluntary interconnection of networks.

Q12. Could your case lead to the creation of alternative address or name spaces?

For example, Alternative DNS root systems have a potential to deviate from the “official” IANA DNS root, and therefore create an alternative space, fragmenting the Internet.

Q13. Does your case impact the consistency of global identifiers?

For example, by blocking and/or redirecting the response of a DNS query, such that an end user or network is not able to access globally available content or services.

Q14. Does your case change the way in which global identifiers are governed?

For example, if it changes the way identifiers are allocated, how the policies that govern such process are developed, etc.

Q15. Does your case discriminate between different kinds of services and content that ‘flows over’ its networks?

For example, by blocking specific protocols or services, like Voice over IP (VoIP).

Would you like to get in touch with our Internet Impact Assessment Team?*

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Internet Impact Assessment Online Tool - Questionnaire

How do you know if a particular policy, development, or trend threatens the Internet’s foundation? Will the policy you have in mind benefit from a more in-depth Internet Impact Assessment?

Questionnaire