I disagree, BCNext is choosing 10 trusted members of the community to distribute the coins accordingly. In essence he is creating what everyone here has been screaming for, a Nxt foundation. For JLC, he can program 10 new locked accounts as a safeguard, probably a new Nxt feature that will require a different pass code to send. You are right, probably a test of a new feature.
What feature community want to test? Centralization? Occam's razor? May I recommend to choose twelve trusted members? 
I honour community opinion to create Nxt foundation, but I strongly disagree with this opinion. Especially with option to create foundation inside code.