Another problem is how NIST should come up with standards. NIST is in charge of standards, but that means that they need to turn to subject matter experts for e

Another problem is how NIST should come up with standards. NIST is in charge of standards, but that means that they need to turn to subject matter experts for each separate field. They need to define the standards for everything from measuring weights, to chemicals in wastewater, to cryptography. So then for each standard you then end up with the government equivalent of an open process where there are requests for comments, maybe a meeting or two to discuss, and trusted folks end up defining the bulk of the document with oversight from editors. Where this breaks down is when you have the subject matter expert on crypto in government, the NSA, be interested in undermining the standards for their own specialty to serve their internal agenda.