The committee works to promote adoption of email security, sending and authentication best practices for all classes of email senders and receivers including ...
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 2026
From our strategic vision to specific goals, read about how we’ll be advancing our five-year strategy in the coming year.
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.
2017 Indigenous Connectivity Summit Community Report
Find out what happened during the 2017 Indigenous Connectivity Summit in this comprehensive report ...
Beyond the Net – Impact Report 2016
At the Internet Society we truly believe in an open, global and secure Internet for everyone. We believe the Internet is a force for good. But it’s up to each ...
Issue Paper, Asia-Pacific Bureau: Internet of Things
Building on the framework and concepts presented in the Internet Society Policy Brief on the Internet of Things, this issues paper focuses on concerns and good practices ...
Promoting the African Internet Economy
Author: Michael Kende
Michael Kende is a Senior Fellow at the Internet Society. Many thanks to Dawit Bekele for his leadership and vision, and to Sally Wentworth, Konstantinos Komaitis, Jane ...
Internet Access and Education
The Internet has immense potential to improve the quality of education, which is one of the pillars of sustainable development. This Internet Society briefing outlines ways in which policymakers can ...
Enabling Digital Opportunities in the Middle East
The Middle East (ME) is an incredibly diverse region with over 350 million people with widely varying states of Internet access and digital readiness. Using research created ...
Tusheti Case Study
Find out how one of Europe's most remote communities set up a community network, boosting tourism, the local economy and providing an essential communication link for healthcare and emergency situations ...
Community Networks: Regulatory issues and gaps – Experiences from India
Improving the availability of affordable broadband and understanding the legal and regulatory challenges of spectrum allocation, licensing regulation, and bandwidth issues in India ...
Internet Society contribution to WTDC 2017
The Internet Society submitted the attached contribution to the ITU World Telecommunication Development Conference 2017 (WTDC 2017). The document is available in French and Spanish by the use of the ...
WTDC 2017 Background Paper
Summary
In October Member States and Sector Members of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Telecommunication Development Sector (ITU-D) will meet in Buenos Aires, Argentina for the 8th ITU World Telecommunication ...
Archives
Where Does the Internet Go Next?
The growth of human society has been driven by the development of three key technologies: writing, printing and now the Internet.
From the early scribblings of animals and rituals on ...
DNS Considerations for IPv6
With so much information on IPv6 focusing on connectivity, it's sometimes important to remember that deploying IPv6 for actual use requires changes to the Domain Name System(DNS) as well ...2014 Online Trust Audit and Honor Roll
The 2014 Online Trust Audit includes a composite analysis focusing on three major categories; a company’s data protection, security and privacy practices, including over two-dozen criteria. Sites were eligible to ...
Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI)
In response to IP address hijacking attacks and to the continuing vulnerability in IP address hijacking, the IETF Secure Inter-Domain Routing (SIDR) working group developed the Resource Public Key Infrastructure ...
Case Study: IPv6 At The U.S. Census Bureau
The United States Census Bureau is one of the leading implementors of IPv6 within the U.S. government. Charles Sun, IPv6 Transition Manager for the U.S. Census Bureau, provided us with ...
Case Study: IPv6 at Cisco
Cisco Systems initially began investigating IPv6 in 2002, but accelerated deploying IPv6 in 2010. They developed a two part strategy that split the project into deploying IPv6 for Cisco's web ...Case Study: Facebook Moving To An IPv6-Only Internal Network
At the 2014 v6 World Congress in Paris, Facebook's Paul Saab outlined how Facebook is well on the path toward moving to an IPv6-only internal network. He makes the point ...
Case Study: Mexico’s AXTEL Outlines Phases of IPv6 Deployment and Recommendations
AXTEL is the second-largest telecommunications operator in Mexico, running its own network in 39 major cities in Mexico and having connectivity to 200 more cities across the country. They have ...
Global Internet Report 2014
The Global Internet Report is the first in a series meant to celebrate the progress of the Internet, highlight trends, and illustrate the principles that will continue to sustain ...
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.
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