Given the same facts, I come to opposite conclusion. To create trust, this business must be conducted in public & must be open access. Imposing any more barrier

Given the same facts, I come to opposite conclusion. To create trust, this business must be conducted in public & must be open access. Imposing any more barriers or concealing the dealings would be actively harmful to the process. Anyone is capable of presenting good data to inform these decisions, to show how & why trust should or should not be given, and that's great, that's how we let in the sunlight. It is just a mailing list. No one has to take commenters seriously. I found the tone here by the cimmunity to be quite fine. But even if it descended sitnificantly, became much less professional, I wouldnt be happy per se but I would not until a long long descent begin to question the value of the open process. It is up to the reader to figure out what credentials people have; as Kurt said, you've got to do your own searching to find out. That there is noise in the channel (in this case it did not seem to come from the community) is not something we should restrict the processs to avoid; it is something we must allow & be able to be tolerant & resillient to.