Re: [Eligibility-discuss] NomCom selection Fwd: Notification for draft-eastlake-rfc3797bis-00.txt

[Paul Hoffman <[e-mail]>]

By a weird coincidence, I was creating a new, simpler choosing protocol when this discussion came up. A colleague was seeing if RFC 3979 fit their need to select m of n people, but had problems with the implementation of 3797. When I looked at draft-eastlake-rfc3797bis-02, I saw that the pitfalls that were in 3797 were still there, and this spurred me to come up with something as good but simpler.

Please see <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-hoffman-genarea-random-candidate-selection/>. It may be of interest for the discussion of draft-eastlake-rfc3797bis. Please note that the proposal could be turned into an RFC even if the IETF wants to keep using the protocol in draft-eastlake-rfc3797bis; there is good reason to have a simpler protocol defined for others who want to have the same result as what we have for NomCom, but using an easier-to-understand alternative.

--Paul Hoffman