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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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ITU Plenipotentiary 14 Conference Background Paper

The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) is a Specialized Agency of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland that has been operating since 1865.  Every four years, the ITU hosts a treaty ...

Botnet Remediation Overview & Practices

This paper has been written for a broad audience of service providers, operators of popular web properties, and other members of the Internet ecosystem that increasingly find themselves having to ...

SURFnet: Preparing An IPv6 Address Plan

SURFnet's IPv6 Addressing GuideThe team at SURFnet has created an excellent document called "Preparing an IPv6 Address Plan" that walks through the many different steps and concerns that you need to consider when ...

How To Get IPv6 Addresses

If you want to obtain IPv6 addresses for your network the process to do so depends upon the type of network you operate.  If you are a home user or ...

IPv6 Address Planning

When starting out with IPv6, it is helpful to plan out how you are going to allocate your IPv6 addresses across your various networks and subnets.  Reasons for creating an ...

IPv6 Address Planning: Guidelines for IPv6 address allocation

IP address planning is certainly among the critical functions required within the overall process of planning and executing an IPv6 deployment project. After all, one needs IPv6 address space in ...

Initial Longitudinal Analysis of IP Source Spoofing Capability on the Internet

Robert Beverly, Ryan Koga, kc claffy The Spoofer project originated in 2005 as the result of discussions over the general ability to successfully send spoofed-source IP packets across the Internet. At the ...

David Freedman: Why I’m Practicing Anti-Spoofing

David Freedman, ClaraNet Many years ago, a number of security and “hacking” sites carried some form of “IP Spoofing Tool”. I always thought this was a strange thing since, unless ...

Benno Overeinder: Measuring Spoofed Traffic

During the RIPE 66 Anti-Spoofing Panel, a central question where all discussion should start with, is do we have reliable measurements of spoofed traffic? Only with measurements of spoofed traffic ...

Anti-Spoofing: Continuing the Dialogue

ShieldAt the RIPE66 meeting in mid-May 2013, Benno Overeinder from NLNetLabs and Andrei Robachevsky from the Internet Society organized a panel called "Seven Years of Anti-Spoofing: What Happened Since the ...

Understanding Security and Resilience of the Internet

Cybersecurity is a rather vague overarching term that is used in different contexts to mean anything from: “information and computer security”; security of the Internet infrastructure; security of anything connected ...

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.