NIST writes:
> When the original emails are read in context, we believe
> that the questions below are not being asked in good faith, and so we
> will not be responding to them.
Wow.
These basic issues of measurability, optimization, realism, and avoiding
overestimates were so important in 2020 that NIST announced them as
criteria that new metrics "must at minimum" satisfy, but by 2023 they're
so taboo that polite yes/no questions about the status are met with NIST
issuing a personal attack and refusing to answer the questions?
And this behavior by NIST is supposed to be justified because of, um,
some unspecified part of the thread back in 2020? The relevant part will
be clear once you see it, but NIST is unable to quote it? Seriously?
---D. J. Bernstein