Re: IESG Statement on surprised authors

> > So  there is an opportunity for a surprise author to alert the IESG & RFC
> > editor.
> Yes, there is a chance to publicly humiliate the submitter. I would not want 
> to do that, so your proposed solution doesn't address my need. 
Considering that most of these situations appear to be mistakes, why
should correcting this mistake be more humiliating than correcting the
zillions of other mistakes fixed from one version of an I-D to the
next?

R's,
John

PS: If it's not clear, this is a real question.