The IESG has received a request from the Applications Area Working Group WG (appsawg) to consider the following document: - 'text/markdown Use Cases' <draft-ietf-appsawg-text-markdown-use-cases-02.txt> as Informational RFC The IESG plans to make a decision in the next few weeks, and solicits final comments on this action. Please send substantive comments to the ietf@ietf.org mailing lists by 2015-07-03. Exceptionally, comments may be sent to iesg@ietf.org instead. In either case, please retain the beginning of the Subject line to allow automated sorting. Abstract This document elaborates upon 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. Background information, local storage strategies, and additional syntax registrations are supplied. The file can be obtained via https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-appsawg-text-markdown-use-cases/ IESG discussion can be tracked via https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-appsawg-text-markdown-use-cases/ballot/ No IPR declarations have been submitted directly on this I-D.