Public participation site

ICANN will be holding a special session in the open forum at its Lisbon meeting on Monday 26 March 2007.

President and CEO Paul Twomey will give his president's report at 10.30am in which he will briefly cover what should be discussed in the session.

The session proper will then start at 12pm GMT/UTC with a rundown on what happened and what the current situation is, given by senior vice president of services, Kurt Pritz, followed by a panel discussion and open floor for questions.

The panel will include representatives from:

• ICANN's At Large Advisory Committee
• gTLD registrars
• ICANN's Security and Stability Advisory Committee
• And other consitituency groups

The meeting will be webcast and audiocast.

A chatroom for those both in the meeting and those online is available (registration required). This is the chatroom for the actual meeting room, not solely for the RegisterFly discussion so we would ask those interested in the RegisterFly issue to wait until the session starts to begin posting relating comments.

ICANN will be presenting a summary of the public comments made over the issue to the meeting, covering posts made to the ICANN blog, emails sent to ICANN staff and other relevant postings made online.

ICANN also welcomes comment and questions on this site as the meeting is in progress. There are several methods of providing this input - the chatroom; a forum specifically for this topic; and comments made to this post (click "add comment" below).