The idea behind this public participation website is that the
Internet community will be able to view, review and interact as far as
possible with ICANN meetings.
Since each meeting involves around 100 different sessions, in a
large number of different rooms, covering a wide array of different
topics and a broad range of interested observers, the site can be
difficult to navigate at first.
This guide has been written to help with those unfamiliar with the site to find what they are looking for.
I want to find out about a particular topic
The Hot Topics page
(link at the top of the page) covers the main topics that will be
discussed at Lisbon. If you click on the name of each topic it will
take you to a page for that topic that will include a link through to a
calendar of all events in Lisbon that will be discussing that topic.
Also, if you look at the bottom of the post (in fact any post on the
site) there are a number of small-font links that characterise that
post, whether it be the topic, the room a discussion is in, the name of
the ICANN constituency, and so on. If you click any of these links, you
will be taken to a page of all pages on the site that have the same
link, listed with the most recent first.
I can't login to the site. It says my email address is already being used
Those that have registered for the meeting or the previous meeting
in Sao Paulo has been entered into this site's database. In some cases,
you may not remember your password; in others, you may never have had
one.
This is a one-time bug at the Lisbon meeting and we apologise for
any inconvenience. What you need to do is click on "Request new
password", enter your email address and click Submit and you will
receive a new one-time password to get into the system at which point
you can choose your own password.
This password should give you access to future ICANN meeting sites so please choose something memorable.
NB: At the moment, the site is not able to deal
with script so Korean, Chinese, Arabic etc usernames are not possible.
We will try to fix this in time for the next meeting.
I’m still confused. What do I do?
The website has been set up to be as useful and simple as possible
but we recognise that it takes getting used to. If you are uncertain
about what to do, the best approach is to slowly click on links and
figure out how the site works.
If you have any questions or queries – or questions to which you
would wish to see answers to posted on this page, please add a comment
to this post below and we will see what we can do to improve the
situation.