Let's be candid. If you review the list of participants ...
Yes Steve, there is a degree of self-interest and self-selection in the composition of this, and every other venue arising from an "open" call for contribution. The alternative is other-selection, exploited at many points in the corporation's history. With that observed, a given as the DoC and the Twomey/Dengate-Thrush CEO/Chair observed in the AoC in their recognition "that there is a group of participants that engage in ICANN's processes to a greater extent than Internet users generally", we must attempt to do our collective best. As we are being candid, I found your handling of an early call to be oddly directive, and am concerned that an overy directive chair may limit work in an area that, quite frankely, deserves thoughtful attention. I find the suggestion that self-interest is so consuming that a chair may not be found by the usual means overly pessimistic. I don't know if Don, or anyone, will rescue us from a hazard we may not, prove to be, captured by -- dysfunctional self-interests, and I'd prefer to follow the usual, mildly problematic process, and having suffered through some pretty badly lead pdp-wg(s), in my personal opinion, the present risk of failure is tolerable, and the process for remediation accessible. Eric P.S. I think I'm disinterested, though others may not share that view, or worse, may think it self-evident.