On 6/22/2015 4:38 PM, John C Klensin wrote: > Given the way the whole procedure works, > repeated use of one country's statistic(s) to get some digits > seems no more political than a choice of lotteries or horse > races. If that is true, then why not make it so? Or use other numbers that are similarly random and independently verifiable? (e.g.,, the low-order numbers of the individual stocks on the Dow Jones or FTSE). I made a simple request that is trivial to address for a convention that is NOT required by the cited RFCs. 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. Joe