Nomcom 2007-8: Randomness Sources for review
Lakshminath Dondeti <ldondeti@qualcomm.com> Fri, 29 June 2007 00:04 UTC
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Subject: Nomcom 2007-8: Randomness Sources for review
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Folks, As per the announced timeline (https://datatracker.ietf.org/public/show_nomcom_message.cgi?id=1231), which is 3777-compliant, the method of random selection was to be announced on July 6, 2007. I am presenting it earlier for your review. In the past few cycles, nomcom chairs have used Wall Street's trading volumes as the sources of randomness to RFC 3797 random selection process. However, I don't currently subscribe to the Wall Street Journal :) and besides RFC 3797 suggests that stock prices and/or volumes are a poor source of unambiguous data anyway, so I chose the following randomness sources; please review them and let me know if there are objections. The following dates assume that I can actually publish the list of volunteers on July 6th 2007 (as of today that has a high likelihood). 1. EuroMillions Fri July 13, 2007 Results: http://www.national-lottery.co.uk/player/p/results/results.do All 7 numbers (5 numbers from 1 - 50 and 2 Lucky Stars from 1 - 9) Results available online around 10 PM UK time. e.g., Fri Jun, 22 07 results 11 16 17 22 34 05 06 We input 11 16 17 22 34 5 6 2. US National debt ("Debt Held by the Public"), published by the Treasury department as of July 12, 2007 (Published on July 13, 2007) "The system is updated daily with the previous day's data. The update typically takes place around 3:00 pm EDT." That according to " -Will Web Development Branch Bureau of the Public Debt" http://www.treasurydirect.gov/NP/BPDLogin?application=np Last 8 digits, ignore the commas and periods from the "Debt Held by the Public" e.g., Fri June 22, 2007 4,950,586,161,721.14 We select 16172114 3. US National debt ("Intragovernmental Holdings"), published by the Treasury department as of July 12, 2007 (Published on July 13, 2007) http://www.treasurydirect.gov/NP/BPDLogin?application=np Last 8 digits, ignore the commas and periods from the "Intragovernmental Holdings" e.g., Fri June 22, 2007 3,852,643,882,285.79 We select 88228579 4. Lottery again, Megamillions http://www.megamillions.com/winningpicks/last_25.asp All 6 numbers (including the Mega Ball) from the drawing on July 13, 2007 (at 11:00 pm US Eastern time). e.g., Fri June 22, 2007 result 11, 14, 21, 24, 31, 23 We input 11 14 21 24 31 23 All the inputs are to RFC 3797 selection algorithm. There is source code in that RFC and an example. regards, Lakshminath Nomcom 2007-8 Chair _______________________________________________ IETF-Announce mailing list IETF-Announce@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf-announce
- Nomcom 2007-8: Randomness Sources for review Lakshminath Dondeti