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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.

Action Plan 2024

Our roadmap for tackling the threats and challenges for today’s Internet as we look to grow and defend it for future generations.

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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.

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Global Internet Report (GIR)

From trust to consolidation, access to sustainability, a deep look at the forces shaping our digital future.

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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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IPv6 Training (and Courseware) Available At RIPE NCC

Interested in learning more about IPv6?  In Europe, RIPE NCC, the Regional Internet Registry (RIR) for the region offers an IPv6 training course for staff of Local Internet Registries - ...

FCC DNSSEC Implementation Guidlines for ISPs

In March 2012, the United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC) published a set of "DNSSEC Implementation Practices for ISPs" through one of the working groups of the FCC's Communications Security, ...

Understanding Your Online Identity: Protecting Your Privacy

This paper explores online identities, the privacy of your online identity, and some of the ongoing work within the Internet community that will give you more control over your identity ...

Assessment of the impact of Internet Exchange Points (IXPs) – empirical study of Kenya and Nigeria

This study quantifies for the first time how IXPs enable Kenya and Nigeria to save millions in telecommunications costs and raise additional revenues in these countries while simultaneously speeding local data exchange, ...

Whitepaper: Challenges and Opportunities in Deploying DNSSEC

At the SATIN 2012 conference on March 23, 2012, the Internet Society's Dan York spoke about a paper that he and other members of the Internet Society staff developed ...

DNS Statistics for .EDU domain names

Shumon Huque at the University of Pennsylvania maintains a site tracking the DNS capabilities of a selected set of universities at:

http://www.huque.com/app/edudns/

The information, updated once per day, ...

Video: Why DNSSEC Matters – An Interview with Joe Klein

What is DNSSEC? How does it work? How can you use it? Why should you care about it? In this video, Dan York interviews cybersecurity expert Joe Klein about DNSSEC ...

Internet Society comment to WCIT Preparations: February 2012

The Internet Society, an ITU Sector Member, provided these comments to the ITU preparatory process for the WCIT ...

DNSSEC Training: Internet Systems Consortium (ISC)

The Internet Systems Consortium (ISC), authors and maintains of the BIND DNS server, have been providing DNSSEC-related training for several years at both conferences and in training centers all over ...

DNSSEC-Tools Project

Dnssec tools projectThe goal of the DNSSEC-Tools Project is "to create a set of software tools, patches, applications, wrappers, extensions, and plugins that will help ease the deployment of DNSSEC related technologies." ...

Internet Invariants: What Really Matters

It’s important to understand what is actually important and unchanging about the Internet – the invariants that have been true to date ...

Daily IPv6 Statistics At Vyncke.org

Eric Vyncke publishes aggregated IPv6 deployment statistics that are updated daily at:

www.vyncke.org/ipv6status/

On his site you can see an overall list of adoption on a country-by-country basis, ...

Organization Reports

On annual basis, we publish annual reports (an Action Plan and Impact Report), as well as financial reports, annual financial statements, and Form 990s.