It appears that Donald Eastlake <d3e3e3@xxxxxxxxx> said: >On Wed, May 10, 2023 at 10:37 PM Toerless Eckert <tte@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> It seems as if the concerns about added delay could indeed be eliminated for >> all practical purposes if we could find a random source that publishes >> future randomn numbers in short intervals (hourly ?!) - and keeps them published for >> a sufficient long period for verification. > >The other substantial component of the delay is the time it takes for >the Nomcom Chair to make a reasonable effort to contact the new >tentatively selected person or persons and determine if they are >actually contactable and are still willing to serve. > >> I am not so sure that i would want to trust the independent randomness of some >> strage URL like https://api3.drand.sh though. Why not? Is there some reason to think that it would manipluate the result just to screw up the IETF nomcom? If you're wondering about that particular RNG, see https://drand.love/. It's supported by a lot of organizations we've all heard of. So long as it's reasonably unpredictable, which drand certainly is, that's plenty good. R's, John
