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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.

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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.

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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.

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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 ...

Case Study: How Romania’s RCS&RDS Deployed IPv6

The following IPv6 case study was contributed by Liviu Pislaru from RCS & RDS.
RCS & RDS is one of the most important telecom operators in the region, providing ...

Video: Introduction To DNS and DNSSEC

Tim Rooney has recorded a great technical introduction to DNSSEC. It goes over the basics of DNS then gives a deep dive into securing DNS with DNSSEC. It covers everything from the ...

Plan – Where We Need To Get DNSSEC Validation Happening

For DNSSEC to succeed, we need to get DNSSEC validation happening within DNS resolvers at many different levels within the Internet ecosystem.  Ideally, the DNSSEC validation will occur as close as ...

2013 Data Protection & Breach Readiness Guide

Breaches and data loss incidents have become a fact of life for organizations of every size and throughout the public and private sectors. There is no perfect defense from a ...

Infographic: Collaboration for a secure and resilient Internet

This infographic explains the idea that when it comes to Internet security and resilience, the traditional approach of just protecting our own assets is not good enough – the Internet ...

Committing to the Principle of Openness

Global Multistakeholder Meeting on The Future of Internet Governance (“NETmundial”) The Internet Society (ISOC) appreciates the opportunity to provide input for consideration by the participants in the Global Multistakeholder Meeting ...

Internet Governance Observations and Recommendations

Global Multistakeholder Meeting on The Future of Internet Governance (“NETmundial”) The Internet Society (ISOC) appreciates the opportunity to provide input for consideration by the participants in the Global Multistakeholder Meeting ...

Open Stand

OpenStand – Modern Paradigm for Global Standards Development: Principles ...

Contribution to the 2014 ITU World Telecommunication Development Conference

The Internet Society (ISOC), a Sector Member of the International Telecommunication Union Development Sector (ITU-D), is pleased to submit this contribution to the sixth World Telecommunication Development Conference (WTDC-14). We ...

RFC 7123 – Security Implications of IPv6 on IPv4 Networks

What are the security issues around IPv6 support and IPv6 transition mechanisms on an IPv4-only network?  Could the unplanned and perhaps even unknown support of IPv6 by operating systems introduce ...

The Danger of the New Internet Choke Points

Authors: Andrei Robachevsky, Christine Runnegar, Karen O’Donoghue and Mat Ford

The ongoing disclosures of pervasive surveillance of Internet users’ communications and data by national security agencies have ...

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.