More information is on their Philosophy page:
https://github.com/cryptosphere/cryptosphere/wiki/Philosophy
https://github.com/cryptosphere/cryptosphere/wiki/Philosophy
If anyone saw Dan Kaminsky talk at LISA 2013[0], you can really see what he means about NIST being replaced by "some guy".
[0] https://www.usenix.org/conference/lisa13/rethinking-dogma