The phrase “Next Generation Network” (NGN) has both a generic and specific meaning. Generically, it is used to refer to “some ...
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 and Standards
The Internet is built on technical standards, which allow devices, services, and applications to be interoperable across a wide and disperse network of networks. The Internet Society is the organisational ...
Comments to the Secretary General’s Report April 2009
Following the last meeting of the World Telecommunication Policy Forum (WTPF) Informal Expert Group held on the 24th of June, we have prepared additional comments on the Secretary General’s Report, ...
Preserving the User Centric Internet
This paper, Preserving the User Centric Internet, was developed by the Internet Society in 2007. It is intended to clarify for ...
IPv6 Address Allocation
The growth and success of the Internet continues to depend on collaboratively engineered and operated, robust technical infrastructure. The Internet Society ...
Comments on final SG Report
Comments submitted by Constance Bommelaer on the ITU World Telecommunication Policy Forum (WTPF) Secretary-General’s Report which seeks to encourage contributions from ITU Member States and Sector Members on any of ...
Internet Society comments on the preliminary third draft of the Secretary-General’s Report
Internet Society is pleased to provide the following comments regarding the draft Report on the Second meeting of the IEG: It is our view that it is important the Report ...
Internet Society comments on second draft of Secretary General’s Report
Comments submitted by Constance Bommelaer on behalf of the Internet Society on the Secretary-General’s second draft report, which sought to encourage ...
Internet Society comments on second draft of ITU Secretary General’s Report
Internet Society comments by Constance Bommelaer on the second draft of the WTPF Secretary General's Report.
Contribution following WTPF first Expert Group Meeting
Following the first meeting of the World Telecommunication Policy Forum (WTPF) Expert Group held on the 24th of June, we have prepared additional comments we would like to submit on ...
Internet Society comments on first draft of ITU SG Report
As a Sector Member of the ITU, Internet Society participates in the consensus-building process of many ITU activities. At the 2006 Plenipotentiary Conference, the ITU decided to hold a World ...
Archives
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
At 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 ...
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
If you have a new application or service where you want to test how DNSSEC validation works, the sites listed below are ones you can use. If you want to ...
Internet Society Issues Paper on Intellectual Property on the Internet
Français | Español Author: Konstantinos Komaitis, Director, Policy Development Over the past years, the idea of how to reconcile intellectual property rights and the Internet technologies and platforms has become a pivotal ...
Discussion paper on the contribution of the Internet to content creation
The Internet is a platform that is ideal for the distribution of digital content such as music or video. In general, given that the Internet empowers technology at its edges, ...
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
There have been significant improvements to Africa’s Internet connectivity in the last five years. Enormous investment in telecoms infrastructure has characterised these improvements, especially in terms of intercontinental connectivity and ...
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.