The following statistics were calculated for informal evaluation of the LA remote participation efforts.

• 1,944 distinct non-anonymous people logged on to the remote participation sites, including 392 on the 14th, 686 on the 15th, and 866 on the 16th, with significant overlap between days. 614 additional anonymous users logged in, summed across all days of the meetings, while 427 users bypassed or attempted to bypass the webcast registration system.
  
  
• 33,961 user-session visits to the ICANN-LA Registration and Remote Participation pages (in http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/icann/la2000) in the one-month period from October 28 to November 30, surrounding the meetings by two weeks in each direction. 3,511 views in 2,566 user-sessions of the Live Webcast page while the meetings were in progress. (But surely many repeats by same person on different days, therefore counted as different user-sessions.) 8,611 requests in 5,622 user-sessions for the main archive page. In total, 247,953 requests in 34,072 user-sessions were made for Berkman Center ICANN-related content between November 12 and December 11.
  
  
• 5,890 user-sessions resulted from links on icann.org web pages, and 5,691 user-sessions reached Berkman Center ICANN-related via links from Slashdot.
  
  
• In the four-week period surrounding the meeting, 2,748 user-sessions reached the ICANN-LA Remote Participation and Preregistration pages via links from ICANN's site.
  
  
• All RealAudio and RealVideo servers below capacity at all times. 2,029 user-sessions accessing the primary video feed summed among all days.
  
  
• From the 12th to December 11th, the http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/icann/la2000/archive Archive main page received 10,281 hits from 6,959 distinct user-sessions, while some 12,634 requests were made in 11,485 user-sessions for ICANN's Resolution Selecting New TLD Proposals for Negotiation. In that time, 2,337 distinct user-sessions watched RealVideo archives of one or more of the LA meetings, averaging requests for about 1.85 distinct video segments per user-session.
  
  
• 113 remote comments were received throughout the three days of meetings. Of those, 6 were presented (all read in their entirety and attributed in scribe's notes).
  
  
• LA remote participants came primarily from the United States and Asia. Summing over all three days of public meetings, 996 remote participants self-identified as North Americans, 192 European, 40 Australian, 37 Asian, 8 South American, and 7 African. See http://cyber.harvard.edu/icann/la2000/archive/remoteparticipants-geography.html for details. This data reinforces prior experience that remote participants are primarily drawn from North Americans plus residents of countries in timezones for which the meetings take place during the day.
  
  
• A total of 1,132 people preregistered to attend the meetings, including 1066 planning to attend in person and 140interested in participating online. (Some overlap -- it was possible to indicate interest in receiving relevant announcements for both physical and remote participation.) Of the 1,066 planning to attend in person, 957 were willing to include their names on the list of meeting attendees (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/icann/la2000/archive/physpart.html) while 109 explicitly declined to be listed. Announcement messages about webcast times and details and about archive availability were sent to all preregistrants in addition to all actual remote participants. Finally, another 121 participants registered on-site by provding name their names and contact information; their names are merged into the public list of meeting attendees linked above.
  
  

For additional information, please contact:  

Ben Edelman
Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School