Concerns about so-called “Fair Share” proposals have been central to debates in anticipation of the EU’s Digital Networks Act (DNA). These proposals, requiring large content and application providers ...

Governments in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) are at a critical juncture. The region is rapidly becoming a global digital hub, particularly for artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud ...

In 2026, our Community Calls will drive collective action, amplify our mission, and showcase our community’s impact as we work together to build and promote an open, globally connected, secure, and ...

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 ...

The Internet is a collection of cooperating, interconnected, multi-protocol networks which supports international collaboration among thousands of organizations. Because of its current scope and rapid ...

The Internet we want is open, trustworthy, and safe. For everyone. But challenges remain: high costs, fragile infrastructure, shutdowns, and privacy threats. Our Action Plan is a roadmap for progress, ...

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Sally Wentworth is the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Internet Society and Internet Society Foundation, leading both organizations in building and protecting an Internet for everyone.

We get better answers to global questions when a range of experts and interests can meaningfully take part in the discussion. Many people talk about ‘the multistakeholder model’ as if it is a single ...

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 ...

The new method that IPv6 introduces is called Stateless Address Autoconfiguration(SLAAC), and described in RFC 4862. SLAAC works by combining part of the address from an interface’s gateway, learned ...

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 ...