The IESG has approved the following document: - 'The text/markdown Media Type' (draft-ietf-appsawg-text-markdown-12.txt) as Informational RFC This document is the product of the ART Area General Applications Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Ben Campbell, Barry Leiba and Alissa Cooper. A URL of this Internet Draft is: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-appsawg-text-markdown/ Technical Summary 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. The working group has selected Informational status since the markdown syntax was specified outside of the IETF, and RFC6838 does not require Standards Track status for a document from the IETF stream registering a media type. Review and Consensus The document had fairly active review within APPSAWG at first, but suffered from some attrition along the way. Feedback ranged from "Why does the IETF need to do this?" to whether the entire work (this plus the use-cases document) should appear in a single document or in separate documents. For the latter question, the split was done; for the former, there are still one or two participants who are unclear whether this media type or the registries created here will ever be used by someone other than the author. The author and chairs were implored to be sensitive to the markdown community, which is external to the IETF. The document shepherd is satisfied that this was done as much as practical. The author asserts that he and others have already begun to use the media type in prototype form within open source and commercial products. Personnel Murray Kucherawy is the document shepherd. Barry Leiba is the responsible Area Director.
