went through this bunch of things looking at tracker comments..... a common thread is that we send comments to the authors; are these also sent to the RFC Editor, so that he can evaluate whether they should be taken out of the queue?
To be clear, they are not taken out of the RFC Editor's queue, but perhaps you mean given a status that is better then the "timed out" state? (Or are your referring to the "4 week timeout" queue?
I guess I've not always paid a lot of attention to whether I'm cc'ing the rfc editor. I do at the beginning, when the document is first being assessed, but probably don't later, when I'm (say) pinging the authors asking for a status update. For example, the heath-ppp document is in this state. But this is one where there was WG discussion, the authors agreed to revise the document, but just haven't gotten around to it. The document is listed in "TO" state. This is the wrong state, IMO.