Individual Members 

As part of its efforts to foster discussion of issues affecting the ongoing evolution of the Internet, the Internet Society organized a roundtable in May 2009 and invited both network operators and content providers to participate. Discussion focused on assumptions being made by application developers and content providers about the network, and specifically on how the adoption of shared addressing solutions by operators might impact the assumptions and service offerings of content providers. Based on discussions at the roundtable, the Internet Society has developed a report that outlines how some aspects of how content and service providers use IP addresses today, and some of the implications for service providers, content providers, and end users during a transition period in which the current assumptions about IP addresses no longer hold. The entire report is available online (PDF) and is part of the Internet Society’s overall emphasis on IPv6.