Imagine you want to visit a neighboring city, but there’s no direct bus. To get there, you first need to travel much farther to a different city, wait for a connection, then take another bus back to ...

Local Infrastructure, Lower Costs: How Peering Is Moving the Needle on Internet Affordability Local infrastructure impacts Internet affordability for users: if the cost is lower and speed and ...

Final Results of the 2026 Internet Society Board of Trustees Elections and IETF Selections The Internet Society Elections Committee is pleased to announce the final results of the 2026 elections and ...

The Internet is fundamentally based on the existence of open, non-proprietary standards. They are key to allowing devices, services, and applications to work together across a wide and dispersed ...

Encryption is the process of scrambling or enciphering data so it can be read only by someone with the means to return it to its original state. It is a crucial feature of a safe and trustworthy ...

The Internet Society supports and promotes the development of the Internet as a global technical infrastructure, a resource to enrich people’s lives, and a force for good in society. Our work aligns ...

In 2026, we will run the second edition of the full Internet Society NDSS Fellowship Program to give you a richer and more rewarding experience before, during, and after the NDSS Symposium 2026. Our ...

The Network and Distributed System Security (NDSS) Symposium is an international academic security conference focused on the latest in network and distributed system security. The Internet Society has ...

Q1: What is the “New IP” proposal? Who is promoting it and supporting it? A: Originally, “New IP” was a set of proposals that were submitted by Huawei to the ITU-T’s Telecommunications Standardization ...

I am a student specializing in cybersecurity and digital forensics, currently based in the United States. My research focuses on securing digital environments and protecting the integrity of digital ...

On 12 May 2024, two fiber optic submarine cables—SEACOM and EASSy—were damaged off the coast of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, significantly reducing Internet connectivity in multiple East African ...

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 ...