>> 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.