And now with my working group chair hat on ;-):
It is helpful if you post such comments (negative as well as positive) on the list so that people have a chance to show agreement or disagreement, or suggestions for improvement. Eg. it is much easier for Shane to know whether a particular direction makes sense if he knows that there is support from more than one person.
David hi. Normally I would agree with you, I also think public discussion is important. In this case we saw massive support for Shane's first charter and also support for few suggestions for modifications. Shane just needs to tweak a bit his text and we might get the charter with full consensus in a very short period of time. I think no more data collecting is needed on this and that's why I agreed on helping Shane with tweaking the text. With respect, Jan Zorz