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Randomness sources for the IETF 2018-2019 Nomcom Selection
June 20, 2018

From:
NomCom Chair 2018 <nomcom-chair-2018@ietf.org>
To:
IETF Announcement List <ietf-announce@ietf.org>
Date:
June 20, 2018
Subject:
Randomness sources for the IETF 2018-2019 Nomcom Selection
As per RFC 7437 and using RFC 3797 (Publicly Verifiable Nominations Committee (NomCom) Random Selection), the following are the seed selection that will be used on June 27, 2018 (2018-06-27).

EuroMillions Lottery Results
https://www.euro-millions.com/results
Friday, June 22, 2018 Results:
https://www.euro-millions.com/results/22-06-2018
  (7 numbers including the star balls: 5 numbers between 1 and 50 and 2 star balls between 1 and 12)                                                                                 

US national debt ("Debt Held by the Public"), published by the US Treasury Department as of Friday, June 22, 2018
http://www.treasurydirect.gov/NP/BPDLogin?application=np

http://www.treasurydirect.gov/NP/debt/search?startMonth=06&startDay=22&startYear=2018&endMonth=&endDay=&endYear=
  Last 8 digits, ignore the commas and periods                                  

US National debt ("Intragovernmental Holdings"), published by the US Treasury Department as of Friday, June 22, 2018, on the same link as above.
  Last 8 digits, ignore the commas and periods 

Powerball Lottery Results
http://www.powerball.com/powerball/pb_numbers.asp
Saturday, June 23, 2018 results: 
http://www.powerball.com/powerball/pb_nbr_history.asp?startDate=6/20/2018&endDate=6/20/2018
  (5 numbers between 1 and 69 plus 1 number between 1 and 26)          

All the above seeds will be provided (in the order listed above) as input to the RFC 3797 selection algorithm to determine the ten voting members of the 2018-19 NomCom.

Scott Mansfield
NomCom Chair 2018-19
scott dot mansfield at ericsson dot com
nomcom-chair-2018 at ietf dot org