Well, I try, but reserve the right to fly in to an ALL CAPS rage...just saying

Well, there are many fans who just cried in terror at your suggestion
Canon is a sticky issue-I claim no special insight in what defines it other than published statements, which includes Lucas' idea of the EU being parallel, but not reflecting his intent with the stories i.e. Luke's marriage etc.
Since even published statements are generally inconsistent, my point of view is that whoever is in charge of LF makes the canon, that canon has its origin in a specific authority. "Sola scriptura" is the idea that Scripture alone is what is needed to know the path to salvation and God's word, without man made traditions, or priest interpretations of the scriptures to help the common masses (If you want an interesting argument about it read about the life of William Tyndale-not relevant to this discussion but interesting).
So, based upon the published quotes I've read, the authority was GL, now LF as GL steps aside. His view is of most interest to me so that's what I take for authority. This quote really cemented my own view:

Obviously, Lucas can make up whatever he wants so take it for what it is worth.

If you want a full, in depth discussion (I warn you, this was all the legaleze and then some they could create from this topic) check out: http://www.canonwars.com/SWCanon2.html
Its overall conclusion is about as muddied as this topic will be as no one gave a crap (see Trey's comments in the original SW commentary) and Lucas was just making a movie. So, his vision changes and things go crazy and now its this monolithic universe that apparently needs rules. So, now the rules are fuzzy, but I personally give GL and LF the canon authority, based upon their own statements.

Fireproof -

I can respect that you believe in the apostolic nature of the Star Wars Papacy, the idea that Lucas ascends to the Holy See, passing the role of Pope on to whoever buys the franchise, but I find the idea repugnant.
Like Luther nailing his protest to the church door we need to reject this claim of authority, instead proposing that each of us has an unmediated relationship with the material, and can accept or reject whatever we like as canon. We need a Star Wars Reformation movement.

Make up their own mind?! Good lord man, we haven't had 16 years of Fox News just so we can go around making up our own minds!

Unless they make up their mind to stay Catholic, then it's forced conversion time

I could swear it was a big story back in the day that Lucas only gave Fox distribution rights to the prequels on the condition they surrendered ownership of the original film back to him/Lucasfilm.

Ahh, it's just speculation then. Well, I suppose we'll see how it pans out. Thanks for the link!

http://io9.com/5961646/someone-actually … pisode-vii

Some indications that 'Safety Not Guaranteed' director Colin Trevorrow might have to be moved into the "most likely" spot for Episode VII.

A quote from a podcast he did back in June:

Then there's an additional quote from a Swedish Mag interview where he talks about his love of Star Wars and how it's basically a "mythology" or even a religion among fans. The question is whether the word "mythology" was used (which would create an apparent connection between the comments) or if that's a result of translation only.

Certainly not confirmation -- but probably the best "evidence" for any individual director who's been rumored so far...

I bet he's doing the next Terminator movie.

Hey, if Kasdan can help Lucas, I'm sure he can help Kinberg.

I could easily be proven wrong, but I think Ep7 needs someone who isn't going to Style all over it. I love filmmakers like Cuaron and Blomkamp but I feel like it'd be jarring. They need a good filmmaker who can make a movie with flair but isn't a style unto himself.

...Or herself. Duuuude. I'm gonna contradict what I just said a little bit and propose Kathryn Bigelow. If she walked it back from the shakycam look? Ooooooo.

I would love to see a series of animated films based on the various popular existing EU stories, imagine Shadows of the Empire or the Thrawn Trilogy fully animated with the voices of the actual actors?