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

• 707 distinct non-anonymous people logged on to the remote participation sites, including 204 on the 11th, 270 on the 12th, and 233 on the 13th, with significant overlap between days. 350 additional anonymous users logged in, summed across all days of the meetings.
  
  
• 4,421 user-session visits to the ICANN-Melbourne Registration and Remote Participation pages (in http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/icann/melbourne) in the one-month period from March 1 to March 31, surrounding the meetings by approximately two weeks in each direction. 1,751 views in 1,057 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.) 2,905 requests in 1,894 user-sessions for the main archive page. In total, 124,381 requests in 13,922 user-sessions were made for Berkman Center ICANN-related content between March 1 and 31.
  
  
• 2029 user-sessions resulted from links on icann.org web pages.
  
  
• All RealAudio and RealVideo servers below capacity at all times. 671 user-sessions accessing the primary video feed, summed among all days. All WindowsMedia servers below capacity at all times. 165 user-sessions accessing the primary Windows Media feed, summed among all days.
  
  
• From March 11th to April 11th, the http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/icann/melbourne/archive Archive main page received 2,905 hits from 1,894 distinct user-sessions. In that time, 525 distinct user-sessions watched RealVideo archives of one or more of the Melbourne meetings, averaging requests for about 2.45 distinct video segments per user-session.
  
  
• 98 remote comments were received throughout the three days of meetings. Of those, 11 were presented (all read in their entirety and attributed in scribe's notes).
  
  
• Melbourne remote participants came primarily from the United States and Australia. Summing over all three days of public meetings, 267 remote participants self-identified as North Americans, 137 Australian, 58 European, 54 Asian, 9 South American, and 2 African. See http://cyber.harvard.edu/icann/melbourne/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 808 people preregistered to attend the meetings, including 717 planning to attend in person and 146 interested in participating online. (Some overlap -- it was possible to indicate interest in receiving relevant announcements for both physical and remote participation.) Of the 717 planning to attend in person, 632 were willing to include their names on the list of meeting attendees (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/icann/melbourne/archive/physpart.html) while 85 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 ? 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