--On Thursday, August 28, 2008 10:12:38 AM -0400 David Boyes
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
How about the last 10 digits of the National Bureau of Standards atomic
clock at the time voting is closed divided by the day of the year?
Public, isolated, independent, and generally non-hackable. Could still
be gamed, but simple to explain and implement.
And completely not random.
Folks, we are getting ourselves into a rathole here. We need to specify a
method that will be used to break the tie, such as using the outcome of a
random event or giving a casting vote to the individual holding some
particular role, or some other method. What we do not need to do is
specify operational details in what is intended to be a long-term,
slow-changing policy document. For example, there's no need to specify a
_particular_ source of randomness, just that a well-defined future random
event is used.
-- Jeff
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