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.
Internet Society’s Submission to the European Commission’s Exploratory Consultation on “The future of the electronic communications sector and its infrastructure”
Encrypted DNS Factsheet
Homomorphic Encryption: What Is It, and Why Does It Matter?
Internet Impact Brief: How Canada’s Online News Act Will Harm the Internet, Restricting Innovation, Security, and Growth of the Digital Economy
Developing Readiness for Community Networks in the Middle East and North Africa
Navigating Digital Sovereignty and Its Impact on the Internet
Perspectives on LEO Satellites
Internet Impact Brief: How the US EARN IT Act Threatens Security, Confidentiality, and Safety Online
Internet Impact Brief: Draft Indian Telecommunication Bill 2022
Financing Mechanisms for Locally Owned Internet Infrastructure
ITU Plenipotentiary 2022 Summary Issues – Matrix
Background Paper on ITU Plenipotentiary 2022
Archives
2018 Email Marketing & Unsubscribe Audit
The 2018 Email Marketing & Unsubscribe Audit found that the vast majority of audited online retailers have embraced unsubscribe best practices, going beyond mere compliance, and have shown continued improvement ...
Best Practices: Email Unsubscribe
Email is a vibrant channel for marketers to connect with consumers on many fronts, providing an important value exchange between consumers and industry. Marketing emails can range from promotional offers ...
The Internet Society Survey on Policy Issues in Asia-Pacific 2018
The Internet and Extra-Territorial Effects of Laws
How to avoid rule-setting and decision-making that will constrain the Internet around the world
The Internet is global, so regulations and court decisions that affect it may have extra-territorial[1] effects ...How To Secure And Sign Your Domain With DNSSEC Using Domain Registrars
With DNSSEC, your domain name registrar plays a critical role in linking your signed domain to the higher-level name servers to form a “chain of trust“. This trust relationship ...
ITU Plenipotentiary 2018 – Issues Matrix
Top Tips for Consumers: Internet of Things Security and Privacy
Internet Crossing Borders: Boosting the Internet in Landlocked Developing Countries
State of IPv6 Deployment 2018
Policy Development Process at the Internet Society
IoT Trust by Design
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.