Internet and mobile technology affects almost every facet of our day-to-day lives and is part of almost every business model. As technology has ...
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.
The Internet Society is a U.S. 501(c)3 tax-exempt charitable organization
The Internet Society is a 501(c) 3 tax-exempt charitable organization formed under the District of Columbia Non-Profit Corporation Act ...
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 ...
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 Fact Sheet
The Internet operates by moving data between networks. To communicate, each device connected to the Internet must be identified by an Internet Protocol (IP) address. We’ve been using IP ...
Toward Collaborative Internet Development
The Internet Society’s Views on the 2014 ITU Plenipotentiary Conference ...
2014 Email Unsubscribe Report & Audit
Email is a vibrant channel for marketers to connect with consumers on many fronts providing an important value exchange between consumers and industry. Marketing emails can range from promotional offers ...
The Open Internet: What it is, and how to avoid mistaking it for something else
It is not by chance that we have enjoyed the extraordinary success of the Internet as a global engine of economic, political, cultural, and social progress. Fundamental principles embedded in ...
2014 Email Integrity Audit
Best Practices to Enhance Trust & Fight Malicious & Deceptive Email ...
Key Concepts on Spam
Spam terms and other things you need to know about spam ...
The History of Spam
The growth of unsolicited e-mail imposes increasing costs on networks and causes considerable aggravation on the part of e-mail recipients. The history of spam is one that is closely tied ...
What Is Spam
The classic definition of spam is unsolicited bulk messages, that is, messages sent to multiple recipients who did not ask for them ...
Have you chosen an Identity Provider lately?
This white paper looks at some of the issues concerning Identity Providers (IDPs), the extent to which you, as a consumer/citizen, can chose your IDP, and the implications of that ...
STARTTLS Everywhere
The Electronic Frontier Foundation(EFF) has launched the STARTTLS Everywhere project in an effort to encrypt more communication between Simple Mail Transfer Protocol(SMTP) Message Transfer Agents(MTAs). STARTTLS ...
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.