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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.

Action Plan 2024

Our roadmap for tackling the threats and challenges for today’s Internet as we look to grow and defend it for future generations.

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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.

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Global Internet Report (GIR)

From trust to consolidation, access to sustainability, a deep look at the forces shaping our digital future.

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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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WTDC 2014: ITU World Telecommunication Development Conference Background Information

The International Telecommunication Union (ITU or the Union) is a Specialized Agency of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland that has been operating since 1865. In 2014 the ITU will ...

The Value of Openness for a Sustainable Internet

The Internet has changed the world. It has revolutionized the way individuals communicate and collaborate, the way entrepreneurs and corporations do business and the way governments develop policy and ...

DNS Servers Supporting DNSSEC

When you install a DNS "server" on your network, it generally acts as either: 1) an "authoritative server" serving out DNS records on behalf of a zone; or 2) a ...

Internet Society Questionnaire on Multistakeholder Governance Report and Summary of the Results. October 2013

In a survey of over 300 individuals from 53 countries, the Internet Society captures important perspectives on the origin and future of multistakeholder Internet governance.  In short, the model works ...

Spam Legislation in the Netherlands: the Law, Results, Approach and Lessons Learned

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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 ...

Organization Reports

On annual basis, we publish annual reports (an Action Plan and Impact Report), as well as financial reports, annual financial statements, and Form 990s.

See the Reports