The US connectivity landscape is changing. The past five years have shown tremendous growth in the work of bringing all Americans online. Programs have focused on increasing access through broadband ...

The Internet has made the world feel a lot closer. We can be in rural Canada and watch a livestream of an elephant sanctuary in Thailand as if it’s right down the street. We can work for a company in ...

I am a lawyer and public policy researcher specializing in digital rights, Internet governance, and tech policy. I’m currently a PhD candidate at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, where I ...

Because the Internet impacts all of us, we work with organizations of all shapes and sizes to address the wide range of social, economic, and policy issues. Our organization members and partners ...

Why should I care about IPv6? IPv6 is the future of the Internet, and without it the Internet can no longer grow. We have been growing the commercial Internet for decades using IPv4 address space. At ...

Internet transforma vidas, pero solo cuando las personas pueden acceder a la red y usarla de forma segura. Internet Society e Internet Society Foundation funcionan como partes complementarias de un ...

Artificial intelligence is a technology that is already impacting how users interact with, and are affected by the Internet. In the near future, its impact is likely to only continue to grow. AI has ...

A series of enacted and proposed revisions to South Korea’s Telecommunications Business Act (TBA) spell out new interconnection rules for Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and Value-Added Telecom ...

the achievability of traceability within end-to-end encrypted communications [6] what methods are available to enable traceability, and what are the ramifications of each? In a series of Chatham House ...

Peering is a fundamental part of how the Internet works. It allows networks to exchange traffic directly, reducing reliance on intermediaries. This improves performance, lowers costs, and increases ...

What is DNS, and Why is it Critical? The domain name system (DNS) [1] is fundamental to everything we do online. Serving as a directory lookup for the Internet, it makes the Internet easier for humans ...

In September 2020, a draft European Commission report called “Technical solutions to detect child sexual abuse in end-to-end encrypted communications” was leaked. 1 The report gave an analysis of ...