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Re: IESG Statement on surprised authors

Ted Lemon <Ted.Lemon@nominum.com> Sun, 31 May 2015 22:11 UTC

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From: Ted Lemon <Ted.Lemon@nominum.com>
Subject: Re: IESG Statement on surprised authors
Date: Sun, 31 May 2015 18:11:12 -0400
To: John Levine <johnl@taugh.com>
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On May 31, 2015, at 1:04 PM, John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> wrote:
> We do automatically notify authors when new drafts are posted, which
> should usually alert surprised authors to the problem.

At this point the damage is already done: the surprised author now has to publicly accuse the other author(s) of surprising them, which is really burdensome and which said surprise author kit find completely unpalatable for any number of reasons. This is not a solution.

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