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.
2023 Year in Review
The Year in Review shows the steps we took in 2023 to ensure the Internet is for everyone. Learn about the positive difference we made for the Internet.
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.
Archives
Unleashing the Potential of the Internet for ASEAN Economies – Executive Summary
Collaborative Security: An approach to tackling Internet Security issues
People are what ultimately hold the Internet together. The Internet’s development has been based ...
Internet Governance Survey 2015
Unleashing the Potential of the Internet for ASEAN Economies
Permissionless Innovation, Cornerstone of a Successful Internet
In March 2015, former Internet Society Board of Trustee and 2014 Internet Hall of Fame Inductee Prof. dr. Erik Huizer wrote an essay at the request of a Dutch ...
IPV6 Matrix
IPv6 For Network Operators Book (ISOC Argentina Chapter)
The ISOC Argentina Chapter recently published a new book in Spanish focused on IPv6 for network operators. You can download the book for free in PDF form here: IPv6 para ...Internet Society Submission to the U.N. Special Rapporteur on the Protection and Promotion of the Right to Freedom of Expression and Opinion Regarding the Use of Encryption and Anonymity in Digital Communications
The Internet Society welcomes the opportunity to contribute to the report that will be prepared by the Special Rapporteur on the protection and promotion of the right ...
Best Practices: Security & Privacy for Enterprises
OTA recommends that all organizations implement the following best practices:
Attacks against user credentials, including brute force, sniffing, host-based access and theft of password databases, remain very strong attack vectors ...
Promoting Local Content Hosting to Develop the Internet Ecosystem
In many developing countries and emerging regions the vast majority of content accessed by local users is hosted overseas. This content must traverse international links that are often expensive and ...
Barefoot & Connected: Socio-behavioural impact of wireless broadband & digital intervention in a village campus
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.