The current structure is distressingly complicated. But I don't believe that it was possible to carry on as in the past. It's a much more complicated world than in the past. I assumed that it was selected by a combination of Postel and Joe Simms. But as you have just spelled out, it's a different world than in the days when the IAB was self-perpetuating.
Boards appointed by no-one knows whom tend to produce suspicion.
It's a Garden of Eden situation. The first board was appointed. It then moved to set up elections. But I said finite. I don't think it will extend indefinitely, because I don't think those people have the stomach for it.