
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.
NGN and the Internet
The Internet and Standards
Comments to the Secretary General’s Report April 2009
Preserving the User Centric Internet
IPv6 Address Allocation
Comments on final SG Report
Internet Society comments on the preliminary third draft of the Secretary-General’s Report
Internet Society comments on second draft of Secretary General’s Report
Internet Society comments on second draft of ITU Secretary General’s Report
Contribution following WTPF first Expert Group Meeting
Internet Society comments on first draft of ITU SG Report
Archives
IPv6 Address Planning: Guidelines for IPv6 address allocation
Initial Longitudinal Analysis of IP Source Spoofing Capability on the Internet
David Freedman: Why I’m Practicing Anti-Spoofing
Benno Overeinder: Measuring Spoofed Traffic
Anti-Spoofing: Continuing the Dialogue

Understanding Security and Resilience of the Internet
Average price per GB of traffic in Sub-Saharan Africa for Internet access
Lower prices for Internet access are Important because they:
- are evidence of a more competitive market that is relatively free of bottlenecks
- can generate a virtuous circle by attracting ...
DNSSEC Test Sites
Internet Society Issues Paper on Intellectual Property on the Internet
Discussion paper on the contribution of the Internet to content creation
Making Content Available Over IPv6
The Internet has run out of unused IPv4 addresses. Some regions of the world still have some local supply left but it is a matter of time until those ...
Lifting barriers to Internet development in Africa: suggestions for improving connectivity
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.