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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.

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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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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 ...

DNSSEC and IP Communications (including VoIP, UC, RTC, SIP)

This page will serve as a repository of information related to how DNSSEC and DANE can work with communications protocols based on IP, including voice-over-IP (VoIP), unified communications (UC). real-time ...

A Fine Balance: Internet number resource distribution and de-centralisation

Internet number resources (IP addresses and AS numbers) are distributed to resource users through processes that have evolved over time. Although initially centralised, the processes of policy formation and resource ...

IPv6 and IP Communications (including VoIP, UC, RTC, SIP)

This page provides information related to IPv6 and communications protocols based on IP, including voice-over-IP (VoIP), unified communications (UC). real-time communications (RTC) and the use of the Session Initiation Protocol ...

A report on a micro survey regarding online privacy and personal data

In February 2013, in preparation for a workshop entitled “The New PII: Privacy-Impacting Information” organised by the Internet Society at the WSIS+10 Review Event, the Internet Society invited its members ...

Report: Signed Root Deployment – Framing the Issues (DNSSEC Industry Coalition, 2009)

Report on issues with signing the DNSSEC rootIn April 2013, Steve Crocker circulated this report with the following comment:
In June 2009, a year before the root was signed, the DNSSEC Industry Coalition, led by PIR, and ...

Google Public DNS – DNSSEC Validation

Google logoGoogle provides DNSSEC validation through the use of their "Google Public DNS" servers.  If your local DNS resolvers do not perform DNSSEC validation, you can change your operating system to ...

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.