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

• 351 distinct non-anonymous people logged on to the remote participation sites, including 64 on the 1st, 88 on the 2nd, 106 on the 3rd, and 91 on the 4th, with significant overlap between days. Approximately 197 people bypassed the registration system via links from various external sites and email messages.
  
  
• 1933 views of the ICANN-LA Remote Participation page (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/icann/la) in 1329 user-sessions in the two-week period surrounding the meetings. 1614 views in 812 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.)
  
  
• 733 users reached the ICANN-LA Remote Participation and Preregistration pages via links from ICANN's site (at http://www.icann.org/losangeles99/losangeles-details.htm).
  
  
• All RealAudio and RealVideo servers below capacity at all times. ~? user-sessions accessing the primary video feed and ~? accessing the backup, plus another ~78 user-sessions accessing the primary audio feed, and ~? more accessing its backup. Average of about 45 users on live video feeds during major meeting sessions.
  
  
• From the 1st to 14th, the http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/icann/la/archive Archive main page received 1666 hits from 863 distinct user-sessions. In that time, 317 distinct user-sessions watched RealVideo archives of one or more of the Los Angeles meetings, averaging requests for about 2.4 distinct video segments per user-session.
  
  
• 108 remote comments were received throughout the three days of meetings, 36 of them in the main Public Meeting on the 3rd. Of those 36, 20 were presented to the board and audience (most of them read in their entirety). 20 of the 54 comments during the GA, GAC, and NC sessions were also read -- giving the Public Meeting session the highest ratio of comments presented to total comments received. (Additional comments were received during the public portions of the meeting on the 4th.)
  
  
• While nearly half of remote participants were North Americans -- 213 of 427 -- there was significant participation from Europe (29), South America (22), and Asia (9). (150 other remote participants chose not to specify their geographic region.) See http://cyber.harvard.edu/icann/la/archive/remoteparticipants-geography.html for details.
  
  
• The real-time chat was extremely helpful in avoiding clogging of the realtime comment submission system with messages like "Who's talking?" and "My RealPlayer won't work!" as well as in helping Berkman staff resolve certain technical glitches. While certain messages in the chat forum were deemed inappropriate by chat moderators, conversation returned to the topics at hand after warnings were given, and no one was asked or forced to leave the chat area. Complete logs (~250KB) are available from http://cyber.harvard.edu/icann/la/archive/.
  
  
• A total of 526 people preregistered to attend the meetings, including 502 planning to attend in person and 59 interested in participating online. (Some overlap -- it was possible to indicate interest in receiving relevant announcements for both physical and remote participation.)
  
  

For additional information, please contact:  

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