Sounds like people are spending a lot of time complaining and not as much actually producing drafts or forming organizations. The IETF as well, on a PSO proposal. We will probably get the DNSO, but the others maybe not until the May board meeting. In Russia people hit each other in parliament, and they murder politicians. I can live with this kind of hostility.
People are generally much nicer in person than they are in the lists.
They don't like how we were chosen, but were not hostile to us personally. To a reporter from the print press who was not familiar with the online discussion, it was very hostile, but not so much to someone familiar with the online discussion. You see, fundamentally, it is really interesting. You've mentioned Internet governance. And related issues such as how mailing lists govern their members.