I want to point folks to a few different sources of public random
numbers such at https://www.cloudflare.com/leagueofentropy/ and
https://www.random.org/draws/ and https://www.publicrng.com/
The last of those allows for a selection of a future roll (or rolls) to
satisfy a randomness need. So say we're going to do the selection
tomorrow, we pick 230426-1 through 10 as the random digits (1-100) and
throw them into the 3797 scheme as the entropy.
Or say I need to do a roll immediately (or say in 30 minutes), I go to
the website, pick a roll id that happens then - in this case 230425-2179
through 2188. Email that out and confirm that it's in the archive so
you've got a valid timestamp. Rolls happen every 30 seconds and any
given roll can be looked up. For example 210425-23 - 2 years ago was 85.
I mention these only to suggest that re-randomizing when needed doesn't
need to take days or weeks to happen.
Mike
On 8/23/2022 8:55 PM, Donald Eastlake wrote:
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
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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
