Why does ICANN reserve the right to select these people if, really, they are not answerable to any group?
I served on ICANN's first Nominating Committee and took part in the reform process that created the "NomComm," so perhaps I can speak to this. The idea was that ICANN would benefit from having people participate in its various bodies who *were not* answerable to any group and who could exercise their independent judgment in ways that they thought were best to further ICANN's purposes. You will see a handful of Nominating Committee appointed members on each of ICANN's major deliberative bodies: Board of Directors, GNSO Council, ccNSO Council, and At Large Advisory Committee. We also have a strong role to play in the Nominating Committee itself as the ALAC appoints five of the Nominating Committee members, the largest voting group on the committee. Bret