Re: Randomness sources for the IETF 2015-2016 Nomcom Selection

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Joe Touch <touch@xxxxxxx> wrote:
    > - treat Nomcom selection as something other than the securing of
    > international resources, and use a seed based on the message ID of the
    > first Nomcom announcement or such.

Huh? That's entirely predictable by the nomcom chair.

    > - use a *true* source of entropy, such as quantum effects or energy
    > noise. Two alternatives, based on these two effects respectively,
    > already exist:

That's not verifiable.

Did you even read BCP10 and rfc3797?

    > http://www.nist.gov/itl/csd/ct/nist_beacon.cfm
    > includes signed escrowed values from previous dates

That would actually work, thank you for bringing it up.




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