[Archive] Data for input to RFC2777 process for first TAG

Hello,

The first TAG election ended 28 November. The results of the
election will be made available separately.

Per the TAG charter [1] and section 1.6.1 of the 19 July 2001
Process Document [2], we will use the "publicly verifiable nomcom
random selection" process defined in RFC2777 [3] to choose which
elected and appointed participants of the initial TAG will serve
a one-year term instead of a two-year term.

From the charter:

  "When the W3C Director appoints three individuals to the
  initial TAG, he will appoint two people until 31 December 2002,
  and one person until 31 December 2003.

  "In the initial TAG election, three of the seats will expire on
  31 December 2002 and the other two on 31 December 2003."

The dates of the terms will change, but the term lengths will
still be one or two years. Per the Process Document:

  "Using the algorithm in RFC2777 to order the successful
  candidates, the available terms are filled shortest first."

The Director will also use RFC2777 to draw a short straw for the
appointees.

The purpose of this email is to archive publicly that we will use
the following inputs to the algorithm (once for elected
participants, once for appointees):

1) Reference date: 6 December 2001

2) Three sources of randomness (on the reference date):

    a) Standard and Poors 500 Index, closing value.
       http://www.spglobal.com/closes_us.html

    b) Massachusetts State Lottery "Numbers" game, winning
       four numbers.
       http://www.masslottery.com/Numbers_Main_Page.shtml

    c) The day's average "standard (atmospheric) pressure" 
       (in millibars) in San Jose, CA (USA).
       http://www.wunderground.com/

    Note: We are aware that these sources of data are all
    US-based. This doesn't affect the algorithm. For the next
    time we use the algorithm, we welcome suggestions for
    other similar sources of persistent data on the Web.

3) List of participant names. Names will be listed in
   alphabetical order by family name.

Thank you,

 - Ian

[1] http://www.w3.org/2001/07/19-tag
[2] http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Process-20010719/organization#random
[3] http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2777.txt

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Ian Jacobs (ij@w3.org)   http://www.w3.org/People/Jacobs
Tel:                     +1 718 260-9447

Received on Tuesday, 4 December 2001 15:27:55 UTC