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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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DNSSEC Training: Men and Mice

Men & Mice has worked with the Internet Systems Consortium (ISC), authors and maintainers of the BIND DNS server, to provide training related to DNSSEC for several years at both ...

Children and the Internet

The Internet is an increasing part of today’s culture, especially for children and youth, for whom schoolwork, online gaming, and social networking are among the most popular activities. However, the ...

Combating Spam: Policy, Technical and Industry Approaches

Spam continues to be a significant problem for Internet users and operators, even as email filtering and blocking efforts by network operators, software vendors and Internet service providers (ISPs) more ...

DANE Test Sites

The following sites support the DANE protocol by publishing TLSA records. If you are developing software that supports the DANE protocol, you can visit these sites to test your DANE ...

RFC 6698 – The DNS-Based Authentication of Named Entities

For anyone interested in how to better secure the Internet, the DANE protocol ("DNS-Based Authentication of Named Entities") provides a mechanism for using DNSSEC to specify precisely which SSL/TLS certificate ...

The DANE Protocol – DNS-Based Authentication of Named Entities

If you connect to a website using a "secure" connection over TLS/SSL, how do you know you are using the correct TLS/SSL certificate? You may see the "lock" icon in your ...

Internet Interconnections Proposals For New Interconnection Model Comes Up Short

[Editor's note: This document was prepared in advance of the World Conference on International Telecommunication Regulations (WCIT-12) in 2012. Please see our full list of resources ...

NIST Guidelines for the Secure Deployment of IPv6

The United States National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) created an excellent “Special Publication” related to IPv6 security called:

Guidelines for the Secure Deployment of IPv6

Like most of ...

DNSSEC Policy & Practice Statements (DPS)

Are you responsible for signing your domain with DNSSEC are are looking to understand more of what may be involved?  Are you perhaps with registry or top-level domain (TLD) operator ...

Routing Security: Report on 3rd Internet Society Operator Roundtable

Report on 3rd Operator Roundtable on Routing Security
31 May 2012, ISOC office, Reston, USA
Introduction
Network operator’s business is heavily dependent on the stability and performance of ...

Internet Society Perspectives on Domain Name System (DNS) Filtering

This paper discusses solutions to illegal on-line activities.  Policymakers, legislators, and regulators around the globe want to combat illegal online activities such as child pornography, infringement of intellectual property rights ...

Data Privacy on a global scale: keeping pace with an evolving environment

A report from a roundtable organised by the Internet Society at the WSIS Forum on 16 May 2012 at Geneva, Switzerland. The WSIS Forum 2012 offered a timely opportunity to bring together insights ...

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.