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.
A Summary Report: Promoting the Use of Internet Exchange Points
The Modern Paradigm for Standards
Internet Accessibility: Internet Use by Persons with Disabilities: Moving Forwards
Internet Society Submission for the ITU World Conference on International Telecommunication Regulations (WCIT-12)
Who is following me: tracking the trackers (part 2)
Internet Interconnections Proposals For New Interconnection Model Comes Up Short
Internet Governance in Kenya – An assessment
This report describes and assesses the national environment for Internet governance in Kenya in April 2012, with some supplementary material from the meeting of the Kenya Internet ...
Data Privacy on a global scale: keeping pace with an evolving environment
Assessing National Internet Governance Arrangements
This report is the first of two pieces of work by ict Development Associates (ictDA) for the Internet Society (ISOC). It proposes a framework for the assessment of national ...
Understanding Your Online Identity: Protecting Your Privacy
Assessment of the impact of Internet Exchange Points (IXPs) – empirical study of Kenya and Nigeria
Internet Society comment to WCIT Preparations: February 2012
Archives
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
Hash-slinger – a tool for creating TLSA records for the DANE protocol
Cisco’s 6Lab Statistics Site
Cisco maintains a comprehensive IPv6 statistics site that is updated daily at:
As Alain Fiocco wrote in a very detailed blog post announcing the 6lab statistics site, ...
The Modern Paradigm for Standards
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
Internet Accessibility: Internet Use by Persons with Disabilities: Moving Forwards
Who is following me: tracking the trackers (part 2)
Deploying DNSSEC: Validation on recursive caching name servers
Why 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.