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@xxxxxxxxxxx> 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?
Clint (JOATMON) Chaplin
Principal Standards Engineer
Samsung R&D Institute America
Principal Standards Engineer
Samsung R&D Institute America