I have posted an rfc3797bis draft. It has lots of updates but currently has the same basic algorithm. I plan to add material to it to address the need some people see to re-randomize when selection has to be extended beyond the initial selection provided in RFC 3797. Thanks, Donald =============================== Donald E. Eastlake 3rd +1-508-333-2270 (cell) 2386 Panoramic Circle, Apopka, FL 32703 USA d3e3e3@xxxxxxxxx ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: <internet-drafts@xxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, Aug 23, 2022 at 8:13 PM Subject: New Version Notification for draft-eastlake-rfc3797bis-00.txt To: Donald E. Eastlake <d3e3e3@xxxxxxxxx> A new version of I-D, draft-eastlake-rfc3797bis-00.txt has been successfully submitted by Donald E. Eastlake and posted to the IETF repository. Name: draft-eastlake-rfc3797bis Revision: 00 Title: Publicly Verifiable Nominations Committee (NomCom) Random Selection Document date: 2022-08-23 Group: Individual Submission Pages: 26 URL: https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-eastlake-rfc3797bis-00.txt Status: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-eastlake-rfc3797bis/ Htmlized: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-eastlake-rfc3797bis Abstract: This document describes a method for making random selections in such a way that the unbiased nature of the choice is publicly verifiable. For example, the selection of the voting members of the IETF Nominations Committee (NomCom) from the pool of eligible volunteers. Similar techniques would be applicable to other cases. The IETF Secretariat