> On Jun 23, 2015, at 9:12 PM, 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? Picking out of a hat is random enough. It’s just not very verifiable. I’m not saying that Harald would manipulate the draw, but some people might and we won’t be able to prove to them that the process was not manipulated. Yoav