Markdown Discuss - Sep 2014 - New Version Notification for draft-ietf-appsawg-text-markdown-01.txt

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

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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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