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Randomness sources for the IETF 2017-2018 Nomcom Selection
June 27, 2017

From:
NomCom Chair 2017 <nomcom-chair-2017@ietf.org>
To:
IETF Announcement List <ietf-announce@ietf.org>
Date:
June 27, 2017
Subject:
Randomness sources for the IETF 2017-2018 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 July 7, 2017 (2017-07-07).

EuroMillions Lottery Results
https://www.euro-millions.com/results
Tuesday, July 4, 2017 Results:
https://www.euro-millions.com/results/04-07-2017
  (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 Thursday, July 6, 2017
http://www.treasurydirect.gov/NP/BPDLogin?application=np

http://www.treasurydirect.gov/NP/debt/search?startMonth=07&startDay=6&startYear=2017&endMonth=&endDay=&endYear=
  Last 8 digits, ignore the commas and periods                                  

US National debt ("Intragovernmental Holdings"), published by the US Treasury Department as of Thursday, July 6, 2017, 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
Wednesday, July 5, 2017 results: 
http://www.powerball.com/powerball/pb_nbr_history.asp?startDate=7/5/2017&endDate=7/5/2017
  (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 2017-18 NomCom.

Peter Yee
NomCom Chair 2017-18
peter at akayla dot com
nomcom-chair-2017 at ietf dot org