First and foremost, Stephen, to whatever degree you understood my "simple" to refer to you, I apologize abjectly for any offence taken. I meant only that the lack of a deacon on a commission about deacons is a complaint that virtually begs to be made...unless one understands the actual issues before the commission.

This commission is not tasked, as I understand it, with deciding if the female diaconate should be reestablished in some form (in which case, a lack of deacons on the commission would be a serious misstep) , but with the deeper question of whether the historical female diaconate represents women in Major Orderss (versus Minor Orders) (to use the Latin terms) or Cheirotonia (versus Cheirothesia) to use the Byzantine equivalent. 

The requisite expertise includes knowledge of historical Byzantine ritual and sacramental theology. In my opinion (as a retired Byzantine deacon), the fact women were ordained behind the iconostasis and with an epiclesis the same as male deacons...