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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.

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.

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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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Report on Routing Resiliency Measurements Workshop

The issue of routing security has been an object of constant attention by the industry for more than a decade. BGP vulnerabilities were identified as early as ...

ENISA Report: Resilience of the Internet Interconnection Ecosystem

Seeking to understand routing resiliency and routing security? In this April 2011 report, "Inter-X: Resilience of the Internet Interconnection Ecosystem ", the European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) provides ...

Human Rights and Internet Protocols: Comparing Processes and Principles

Since its inception, the Internet has been a force for innovation and positive development – in our societies, in our politics, and in our economies. It has also been a ...

Combatting Botnets Through User Notification Across the Ecosystem

Botnets represent a complex problem impacting users, businesses and governments worldwide. Their impact ranges from mere annoyance to significant productivity losses. They are responsible for the distribution of billions of ...

A Summary Report: Promoting the Use of Internet Exchange Points

Internet Exchange Points (IXPs) are vital elements of Internet infrastructure that enable networks to exchange traffic with each other. Multiple Internet service providers (ISPs) can connect at a single IXP, ...

Hash-slinger – a tool for creating TLSA records for the DANE protocol

Hash-slinger is a package of tools created by Paul Wouters of RedHat to make it easy to create records for  the DANE protocol that will allow you to secure your ...

Cisco’s 6Lab Statistics Site

Cisco maintains a comprehensive IPv6 statistics site that is updated daily at:

http://6lab.cisco.com/stats/

As Alain Fiocco wrote in a very detailed blog post announcing the 6lab statistics site, ...

Internet and Human Rights: The Challenge of Empowered Communities

Shirin Ebadi reminds us of the power of ideas and shows how the free flow of information can give hope to people in their fight for a better life ...

Some Perspectives on Cybersecurity 2012

This paper is intended to help anyone concerned about the healthy evolution of the Internet with an introduction to cybersecurity ...

Internet Accessibility: Internet Use by Persons with Disabilities: Moving Forwards

Through this paper, the Internet Society wishes to expand our work with everyone in the Internet community to improving persons with disabilities' access to the Internet. If the appropriate Internet ...

Who is following me: tracking the trackers (part 2)

An update to the background paper for a workshop being co-organised by the Council of Europe and the Internet Society at the Internet Governance Forum in Baku, Azerbaijan on 8 November 2012 ...

Deploying DNSSEC: Validation on recursive caching name servers

SURFnet whitepaper on deploying DNSSECWhy should you deploy DNSSEC-validating DNS resolvers on your network?  What kind of planning should you do to prepare? What steps do you need to do?

The team at SURFnet ...

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.