The phrase “Next Generation Network” (NGN) has both a generic and specific meaning. Generically, it is used to refer to “some ...
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.
International Chapter Toolkit: Tools for Mobilizing Volunteers
Introduction
If you are like many Internet Society Chapter leaders, you are thinking about the best ways to mobilize your members into an effective team that can deliver successful programmes ...The Relationship Between Local Content, Internet Development, and Access Prices
Report from the Internet Society, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
1. Societies ...
Understanding Your Online Identity: Learning to Protect your Identity
Identity theft, which results in a loss of control over one or more of your partial identities, is a natural concern; as the value of your partial identities grows, the ...
Understanding your Online Identity: An Overview of Identity
This paper is intended to help explain the various different identities and profiles that represent you online ...
The Future of Privacy IGF workshop report
A report from a workshop co-organised by the Internet Society (ISOC) and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) at the 2010 Internet Governance Forum (IGF). As countries around the world are ...
Privacy: An Internet Society Membership Survey
Privacy and data protection issues have increasingly gained prominence in Internet governance discussions. Indeed, one of the five themes of the Internet Governance Forum 2010 is “Openness, Security and Privacy”, ...
Open Inter-networking
The modern Internet features increasing complexity of uses and demand for bandwidth. The Internet Society believes that an Internet access environment characterized by choice and transparency, ...
The Internet and Standards
The Internet is built on technical standards, which allow devices, services, and applications to be interoperable across a wide and disperse network of networks. The Internet Society is the organisational ...
Comments to the Secretary General’s Report April 2009
Following the last meeting of the World Telecommunication Policy Forum (WTPF) Informal Expert Group held on the 24th of June, we have prepared additional comments on the Secretary General’s Report, ...
Preserving the User Centric Internet
This paper, Preserving the User Centric Internet, was developed by the Internet Society in 2007. It is intended to clarify for ...
IPv6 Address Allocation
The growth and success of the Internet continues to depend on collaboratively engineered and operated, robust technical infrastructure. The Internet Society ...
Archives
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 ...
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.