I believe that publicly verifiable by anybody who cares is also a design
criteria. At least in the process for NonCom selection as we currently run
it everybody knows the process and algorithm, everybody is notified in
advance what inputs will be used and where they are obtained, and anybody
can run the process and algorithm themselves to verify the same results.
Using other physical sources of randomness allows the person running the
process to keep running the process with different inputs until an outcome
desirable by him is obtained.
On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 11:12 AM, Eric C Rosen <erosen(_at_)juniper(_dot_)net>
wrote:
On 6/23/2015 8:43 AM, Harald Alvestrand wrote:
Speaking as the person who actually picked these lotteries and numbers:
Wouldn't it be simpler and just as effective to pick the names of the
nomcom members out of a hat? Just make sure to give it a good shake first.
Or do people really think that the main problem in selecting good IESG
members is that the process that selects the nomcom members is
insufficiently random?
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Clint (JOATMON) Chaplin
Principal Standards Engineer
Samsung R&D Institute America