Re: Randomness sources for the IETF 2015-2016 Nomcom Selection

On 6/22/15 6:35 PM, Joe Touch wrote:
> On 6/22/2015 6:12 PM, Randall Gellens wrote:
> > At 5:23 PM -0700 6/22/15, Joe Touch wrote:
> >
> > >  The push back I've seen so far indicates to me that there are clear
> > >  political motivations for using the US Debt numbers instead. So be it.
> > >
> > >  I'll be glad to pick equally offensive values for entropy in the next
> > >  specs I author.
> > I just happened to see this thread, and this response makes me very
> > curious.  Quite likely I'm naive or ignorant, so this may be very
> > obvious, but I can't see what political statement is being made, or how
> > the sources are offensive.  Obviously, the debt and budget of any nation
> > is a political topic, but I can't see what statement is being made by
> > using it as a source of digits, or who is being offended and why.

The appointed chair can choose the source seeds and indeed the algorithm
according to their whim so long as they meet the critera described in
7437 which informatively  cites 3797. It is their prerogative, not ours
to do so.

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