Work on the text/markdown media type in the IETF is underway.
I wanted to post this to this discussion list to let you all know of the progress, and to welcome feedback. To reiterate: this standards effort is to register `text/markdown` as the Internet media type for Markdown content. It does not standardize the syntax in any way. I have already gotten very substantial feedback privately, so thanks in advance for that. The draft is not perfect, but it's a great place to start. One piece of feedback that I thought was really important to state up front, is that draft-01 lacks a discussion of goals and use cases that we want to satisfy. Therefore, I would like to invite the community to contribute. Some things in the draft (like the whole `processor` thing) may make no sense for your use case, but several others on this list have articulated reasons why they would want such things. I have set up a wiki page so that the community can add this content: <http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/appsawg/trac/wiki/TextMarkdown/GoalsAndUses>. In addition to responding privately and responding on this list, here are some other resources: Mini-Charter: http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/appsawg/trac/wiki#draft-ietf-appsawg-text-markdown IETF apps-discuss Mailing List: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/apps-discuss Wiki for Goals and Uses: (just saying it twice for emphasis) http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/appsawg/trac/wiki/TextMarkdown/GoalsAndUses Sean ******************** A new version of I-D, draft-ietf-appsawg-text-markdown-01.txt has been successfully submitted by Sean Leonard and posted to the IETF repository. Name: draft-ietf-appsawg-text-markdown Revision: 01 Title: The text/markdown Media Type Document date: 2014-09-09 Group: appsawg Pages: 14 URL:http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-appsawg-text-markdown-01.txt Status:https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-appsawg-text-markdown/ Htmlized:http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-appsawg-text-markdown-01 Diff:http://www.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url2=draft-ietf-appsawg-text-markdown-01 Abstract: This document registers the text/markdown media type for use with Markdown, a family of plain text formatting syntaxes that optionally can be converted to formal markup languages such as HTML.
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