The text/markdown Media Type
draft-ietf-appsawg-text-markdown-08

Applications Area Working Group                               S. Leonard
Internet-Draft                                             Penango, Inc.
Intended Status: Informational                             June 18, 2015
Expires: December 20, 2015                                              

                      The text/markdown Media Type
                  draft-ietf-appsawg-text-markdown-08

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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Table of Contents

   1. Introduction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  2
     1.1. This Is Markdown! Or: Markup and Its Discontents  . . . . .  2
     1.2. Markdown Is About Writing and Editing . . . . . . . . . . .  3
     1.3. Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  5
   2. Markdown Media Type Registration Application  . . . . . . . . .  5
   3. Fragment Identifiers  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  8
     3.1. Parameters  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  8
   4.  Content Disposition and preview-type . . . . . . . . . . . . .  8
   5.  Example  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  9
   6.  IANA Considerations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
     6.1. Markdown Variants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
   7. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
   8. References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
     8.1. Normative References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
     8.2. Informative References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
   Appendix A.  Change Log  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
   Author's Address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

1. Introduction

1.1. This Is Markdown! Or: Markup and Its Discontents

   In computer systems, textual data is stored and processed using a
   continuum of techniques. On the one end is plain text: a linear
   sequence of characters in some character set (code), possibly
   interrupted by line breaks, page breaks, or other control characters.
   The repertoire of these control characters (a form of in-band
   signaling) is necessarily limited, and not particularly extensible.
   Because they are non-printing, these characters are also hard to
   enter with standard keyboards.

   Markup offers an alternative means to encode this signaling
   information by overloading certain characters with additional
   meanings. Therefore, markup languages allow for annotating a document
   in such a way that annotations are syntactically distinguishable from
   the printing information. Markup languages are (reasonably) well-
   specified and tend to follow (mostly) standardized syntax rules.
   Examples of formal markup languages include SGML, HTML, XML, and
   LaTeX. Standardized rules lead to interoperability between markup
   processors, but impose skill requirements on new users that lead to
   markup languages becoming less accessible to beginners. These rules
   also reify "validity": content that does not conform to the rules is
   treated differently (i.e., is rejected) than content that conforms.

   In contrast to formal markup languages, lightweight markup languages
 

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   use simple syntaxes; they are designed to be easy for humans to enter
   and understand with basic text editors. Markdown, the subject of this
   document, began as an /informal/ plain text formatting syntax
   [MDSYNTAX] and Perl script HTML/XHTML processor [MARKDOWN] targeted
   at non-technical users using unspecialized tools, such as plain text
   e-mail clients. [MDSYNTAX] explicitly rejects the notion of validity:
   there is no such thing as "invalid" Markdown. If the Markdown content
   does not result in the "right" output (defined as output that the
   author wants, not output that adheres to some dictated system of
   rules), the expectation is that the author should continue
   experimenting by changing the content or the processor to achieve the
   desired output.

   Since its development in 2004 [MARKDOWN], a number of web- and
   Internet-facing applications have incorporated Markdown into their
   text entry systems, frequently with custom extensions. Markdown has
   thus evolved into a kind of Internet meme [INETMEME] as different
   communities encounter it and adapt the syntax for their specific use
   cases. Markdown now represents a family of related plain text
   formatting syntaxes and implementations that, while broadly
   compatible with humans [HUMANE], are intended to produce different
   kinds of outputs that push the boundaries of mutual intelligibility
   between software systems.

   To support identifying and conveying Markdown, this document defines
   a media type and parameters that indicate the author's intent on how
   to interpret the Markdown. This registration draws particular
   inspiration from text/troff [RFC4263], which is a plain text
   formatting syntax for typesetting based on tools from the 1960s
   ("RUNOFF") and 1970s ("nroff", et. al.). In that sense, Markdown is a
   kind of troff for modern computing. A companion document [MDMTUSES]
   provides additional Markdown background and philosophy.

1.2. Markdown Is About Writing and Editing

     "HTML is a *publishing* format; Markdown is a *writing* format.
      Thus, Markdown's formatting syntax only addresses issues
      that can be conveyed in plain text." [MDSYNTAX]

   The paradigmatic use case for text/markdown is the Markdown editor:
   an application that presents Markdown content (which looks like an e-
   mail or other piece of plain text writing) alongside a published
   format, so that an author can see results instantaneously and can
   tweak his or her input in real-time. A significant number of Markdown
   editors have adopted "split-screen view" (or "live preview")
   technology that looks like Figure 1:

 

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+----------------------------------------------------------------------+
| File  Edit  (Cloud Stuff)  (Fork Me on GitHub)  Help                 |
+----------------------------------------------------------------------+
| [ such-and-such identifier ]                 [ useful statistics]    |
+----------------------------------++----------------------------------+
| (plain text, with                || (text/html, likely               |
|  syntax highlighting)            ||  rendered to screen)             |
|                                  ||                                  |
|# Introduction                    ||<h1>Introduction</h1>             |
|                                  ||                                  |
|## Markdown Is About Writing and  /|<h2>Markdown Is About Writing and |
/ Editing                          ||Editing</h2>                      |
|                                  ||                                  |
|> HTML is a *publishing* format;  ||<blockquote><p>HTML is a          |
|> Markdown is a *writing* format. || <em>publishing</em> format;      |
|> Thus, Markdown's formatting     || Markdown is a <em>writing</em>   |
|> syntax only addresses issues    || format. Thus, Markdown's         |
|> that can be conveyed in plain   <> formatting syntax only addresses |
|> text. [MDSYNTAX][]              || issues that can be conveyed in   |
|                                  || plain text. <a href="http://darin/
|The paradigmatic use case for     |/gfireball.net/projects/markdown/sy/
|`text/markdown` is the Markdown   |/ntax#html" title="Markdown: Syntax/
|editor: an application that       |/: HTML">MDSYNTAX</a>              |
|presents Markdown content         ||</p></blockquote>                 |
|...                               ||                                  |
|                                  ||<p>The paradigmatic use case for  |
|[MDSYNTAX]: http://daringfireball./| <code>text/markdown</code> is the|
/net/projects/markdown/syntax#html || Markdown editor: an application  |
|"Markdown: Syntax: HTML"          || that presents Markdown content   |
|                                  || ...</p>                          |
+----------------------------------++----------------------------------+

 LEGEND: "/" embedded in a vertical line represents a line-continuation
  marker, since a line break is not supposed to occur in that content.

          Figure 1: Markdown Split-Screen/Live Preview Editor

Implementations SHOULD produce and consume mutually intelligible and
identifiable bits of Markdown, so that users on diverse platforms can
collaborate with their tools of choice. Those tools MAY be desktop-based
(MarkdownPad, MultiMarkdown Composer), browser-based (Dillinger,
Markable), integrated widgets (Discourse, GitHub), general-purpose
editors (emacs, vi), or plain old "Notepad". Additionally,
implementations SHOULD have common ways to identify particular areas of
Markdown content when the Markdown becomes appreciably large (e.g., book
chapters and Internet-Drafts--not just blog posts). So that users have
the option to use Markdown in MIME-capable systems to convey their works
in progress, not just their finished products (for which full-blown
 

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markups ranging from text/html to application/pdf are appropriate),
implementations SHOULD label such Markdown content with a common media
type: text/markdown. This registration facilitates interoperability
between these Markdown editors by conveying the syntax of the particular
Markdown variant and the desired output format.

1.3. Definitions

   The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
   "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this
   document are to be interpreted as described in [RFC2119].

   Since Markdown signifies a family of related formats with varying
   degrees of formal documentation and implementation, this
   specification uses the term "variant" to identify such formats.

2. Markdown Media Type Registration Application

   This section provides the media type registration application for the
   text/markdown media type (see [RFC6838], Section 5.6).

    Type name: text

    Subtype name: markdown

    Required parameters:

     charset: Per Section 4.2.1 of [RFC6838], charset is REQUIRED. There
       is no default value. [MDSYNTAX] clearly describes Markdown as a
       "writing format"; its syntax rules operate on characters
       (specifically, on punctuation) rather than code points. This
       registration does not require or assume any particular character
       set because neither [MDSYNTAX] nor many popular implementations
       at the time of this registration do either. Many Markdown
       processors will get along just fine by operating on character
       codes that lie in printable US-ASCII, blissfully oblivious to
       coded values outside of that range.

    Optional parameters:

     variant: An optional identifier of the specific Markdown variant
       that the author intended. The value serves as a "hint" to the
       recipient, meaning that the recipient MAY interpret the Markdown
       as that variant, but is under no obligation to do so. When
       omitted, there is no hint; the interpretation is entirely up to
       the receiver and context. This identifier is plain US-ASCII and
       case-insensitive. To promote interoperability, identifiers can be
       registered in the registry defined in Section 6. If a receiver
 

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       does not recognize the variant identifier, the receiver MAY
       present the identifier to a user to inform him or her of it.

     Other parameters MAY be included with the media type. The variant
     SHOULD define the semantics of such other parameters. Additionally,
     the variant MAY be registered under another media type; this
     text/markdown registration does not preclude other registrations.

    Encoding considerations:

     Markdown content is plain text content; any octet sequence is valid
     as long as it conforms to the character codes of the charset
     parameter. See [RFC2046]. Markup characters in [MDSYNTAX] are
     limited to printable US-ASCII; however, other variants can define
     markup characters outside this range (including control characters
     such as NUL and characters encoded in multiple bytes).

    Security considerations:

     Markdown interpreted as plain text is relatively harmless. A text
     editor need only display the text. The editor SHOULD take care to
     handle control characters appropriately, and to limit the effect of
     the Markdown to the text editing area itself; malicious Unicode-
     based Markdown could, for example, surreptitiously change the
     directionality of the text. An editor for normal text would already
     take these control characters into consideration, however.

     Markdown interpreted as a precursor to other formats, such as HTML,
     carries all of the security considerations as the target formats.
     For example, HTML can contain instructions to execute scripts,
     redirect the user to other webpages, download remote content, and
     upload personally identifiable information. Markdown also can
     contain islands of formal markup, such as HTML. These islands of
     formal markup may be passed as-is, transformed, or ignored (perhaps
     because the islands are conditional or incompatible) when the
     Markdown is processed. Since Markdown may have different
     interpretations depending on the tool and the environment, a better
     approach is to analyze (and sanitize or block) the output markup,
     rather than attempting to analyze the Markdown.

   Interoperability considerations:

     Markdown variations (some might say "innovations") are designed to
     be broadly compatible with humans ("humane"), but not necessarily
     with each other. Therefore, syntax in one Markdown derivative may
     be ignored or treated differently in another derivative. The
     overall effect is a general degradation of the output that
     increases with the quantity of variant-specific Markdown used in
 

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     the text. When it is desirable to reflect the author's intent in
     the output, stick with the variant identified in the variant
     parameter, i.e., receivers SHOULD only accept Markdown variants
     that they explicitly know about, and senders SHOULD avoid use of
     variants that intended recipients are not known to understand.

   Published specification: This specification; [MDSYNTAX].

   Applications that use this media type:

     Markdown conversion tools, Markdown WYSIWYG editors, and plain text
     editors and viewers; markup processor targets indirectly use
     Markdown (e.g., web browsers for Markdown converted to HTML).

   Fragment identifier considerations:

     See Section 3.

   Additional information:

     Magic number(s): None
     File extension(s): .md, .markdown
     Macintosh file type code(s):
       TEXT. A uniform type identifier (UTI) of
       "net.daringfireball.markdown", which conforms to "public.plain-
       text", is RECOMMENDED [MDUTI]. See [MDMTUSES] for other
       considerations.

   Person & email address to contact for further information:

     Sean Leonard <dev+ietf@seantek.com>

   Restrictions on usage: None.

   Author/Change controller: Sean Leonard <dev+ietf@seantek.com>

   Intended usage: COMMON

   Provisional registration? No

   Implementations SHOULD record the value of the variant parameter (and
   other parameters if defined by the variant) along with the Markdown
   content when the content leaves the domain of Internet media type-
   capable formats. Strategies for doing so are discussed in [MDMTUSES].

   The Content-Disposition header (particularly the preview-type
   parameter) can be used with Markdown content. See Section 4.

 

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3. Fragment Identifiers

   [MARKDOWN] does not define any fragment identifiers, but some
   variants do, and many types of Markdown processor output (e.g., HTML
   or PDF) will have well-defined fragment identifiers. Which fragment
   identifiers are available for a given document are variant-defined.

   When encoded in a URI, characters that are outside of the fragment
   production of [RFC3986] are percent-encoded. The default encoding
   (character set) of percent-encoded octets in URIs is the same as the
   Markdown content, which is identified by the charset parameter or by
   other contextual means. Fragment identifiers SHOULD be considered
   case-sensitive, which maintains consistency with HTML. Variants MAY
   override the guidance in this paragraph.

   At least the first equals sign "=" SHOULD be percent-encoded to
   prevent ambiguity as described in the following section.

3.1. Parameters

   Similar to application/pdf [RFC3778] and text/plain [RFC5147], this
   registration permits a parameter syntax for fragment identifiers. The
   syntax is a parameter name, the equals sign "=" (which MUST NOT be
   percent-encoded), and a parameter value. To the extent that multiple
   parameters can appear in a fragment production, the parameters SHALL
   be separated by the ampersand "&" (which MUST NOT be percent-
   encoded).

   The only parameter defined in this registration is "line", which has
   the same meaning as [RFC5147] (i.e., counting is zero-based). For
   example: "#line=10" identifies the eleventh line of Markdown input.
   Implementers should take heed that different environments and
   character sets may have a wide range of code sequences to divide
   lines.

   Markdown variants are free to define additional parameters.

4.  Content Disposition and preview-type

   The Content-Disposition header [RFC2183] conveys presentational
   information about a MIME entity, using a type and set of parameters.
   The parameter "preview-type" is defined here for Markdown content.

   When present, "preview-type" indicates the Internet media type (and
   parameters) of the preview output desired from the processor by the
   author. With reference to the "paradigmatic use case" (i.e.,
   collaborative Markdown editing) in Section 1.3, the output-type
   parameter primarily affects the "right-hand" side of a Markdown
 

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   editor. There is no default value: when absent, a Markdown user agent
   can render or display whatever it wants.

   The value of this parameter is an Internet media type with optional
   parameters. The syntax (including case sensitivity considerations) is
   the same as specified in [RFC2045] for the Content-Type header (with
   updates over time, e.g., [RFC2231] and [RFC6532]).

   Implementations SHOULD anticipate and support HTML (text/html) and
   XHTML (application/xhtml+xml) output, to the extent that a syntax
   targets those markup languages. These types ought to be suitable for
   the majority of current purposes. However, Markdown is increasingly
   becoming integral to workflows where HTML is not the target output;
   examples range from TeX, to PDF, to OPML, and even to entire e-books
   (e.g., [PANDOC]).

   The reflexive media type "text/markdown" in this parameter value
   means that the author does not want to invoke Markdown processing at
   all: the receiver SHOULD present the Markdown source as-is.

   The preview-type parameter can be used for other types of content,
   but the precise semantics are not defined here.

5.  Example

   The following is an example of Markdown as an e-mail attachment:

    MIME-Version: 1.0
    Content-Type: text/markdown; charset=UTF-8; variant=Original
    Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=readme.md;
     preview-type="application/xhtml+xml"

    Sample HTML 4 Markdown
    =============

    This is some sample Markdown. [Hooray!][foo]
    (Remember that link identifiers are not case-sensitive.)

    Bulleted Lists
    -------

    Here are some bulleted lists...

    * One Potato
    * Two Potato
    * Three Potato

 

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    - One Tomato
    - Two Tomato
    - Three Tomato

    More Information
    -----------

    [.markdown, .md](http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/)
    has more information.

    [fOo]: http://example.com/loc 'Will Not Work with Markdown.pl-1.0.1'

6.  IANA Considerations

   IANA is asked to register the media type text/markdown in the
   Standards tree using the application provided in Section 2 of this
   document.

   IANA is asked to register "preview-type" in the Content Disposition
   Parameters subregistry of the Content Disposition Values and
   Parameters registry.

6.1. Markdown Variants

   IANA is also asked to establish a registry called "Markdown
   Variants". While the registry is being created in the context of the
   text/markdown media type, the registry is intended for broad
   community use, so protocols and systems that do not rely on Internet
   media types can still tag Markdown content with a common variant
   identifier. Each entry in this registry shall consist of basic
   information about the variant:

    Identifier:             unique identifier for the variant
    Name:                   the commonly known name of the variant
    Description:            a prose description of the variant,
                            including how it differs from other
                            variants such as Original
    Additional Parameters*: additional Content-Type parameters
    Fragment Identifiers*:  additional fragment identifier
                            syntaxes and semantics
    References:             URIs or other references to documentation
    Contact Information:    whom to contact (email, URI, phone,
                            address, etc.)
    Expiration Date^:       when this provisional
                            registration expires

    * (optional)
    ^ (if provisional)
 

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   While the variant parameter is "plain US-ASCII" (see registration
   template), the Identifier field (and by implication, all registered
   identifiers) SHALL conform to the ABNF [RFC5234]:

     ALPHA [*VCHAR (ALPHA / DIGIT)]

   For style and compatibility reasons, the Identifier field SHOULD
   conform to the ABNF:

     ALPHA *( ["-" / "." / "_" / "~"] 1*(ALPHA / DIGIT) )

   I.e., the identifier MUST start with a letter and MAY contain
   punctuation in the middle, but not at the end: the last character
   MUST be alphanumeric. The second production uses the same characters
   as the "unreserved" rule of [RFC3986], and is designed to be
   compatible with characters in other identification systems, e.g.,
   filenames. Since the identifier MAY be displayed to a user--
   particularly in cases where the receiver does not recognize the
   identifier--the identifier SHOULD be rationally related to the
   vernacular name of the variant.

   The Name, Description, Additional Parameters, Fragment Identifiers,
   References, and Contact Information fields SHALL be in a Unicode
   character set (e.g., UTF-8).

   The registry includes the registration in Section 6.1.4 (Original
   Markdown). [MDMTUSES] includes additional registrations.

6.1.1. Reserved Identifiers

   The registry has the following identifiers RESERVED, as they have
   engendered some controversy in the Markdown community. No one is
   allowed to register them (or any case variations of them).
      Standard
      Common
      Markdown

6.1.2. Standard of Review

   Registrations are made on a First-Come, First-Served [RFC5226] basis
   by anyone with a need to interoperate. While documentation is
   required, any level of documentation is sufficient; thus, neither
   Specification Required nor Expert Review are warranted. The checks
   prescribed by this section can be performed automatically.

   All references (including contact information) MUST be verified as
   functional at the time of the registration.

 

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   IANA should confirm the authenticity of the senders of requests for
   this registry.

   As a special "escape valve", registrations can be updated with IETF
   Review [RFC5226]. All fields may be updated except the variant
   identifier, which is permanent: not even case may be changed.

6.1.3. Provisional Registration

   Any registrant may make a provisional registration to reserve a
   variant identifier. Only the variant identifier and contact
   information fields are required; the rest are optional. Provisional
   registrations expire after three months, after which time the variant
   identifier may be reused. To make a registration permanent, a
   registrant simply needs to complete a permanent registration with the
   same identifier as the provisional registration.

6.1.4. Original Markdown

   The registry includes this initial variant. A conforming
   implementation that processes the variant parameter MUST recognize
   this variant (although the processing behavior is not defined here).

   Identifier: Original

   Name: Markdown

   Description:
   Gruber's original Markdown syntax.

   References:
   [MARKDOWN]
   [MDSYNTAX]

   Contact Information:
     (individual) John Gruber <http://daringfireball.net/>
                              <comments@daringfireball.net>

7. Security Considerations

   See the Security considerations entry in Section 2.

8. References

8.1. Normative References

   [MARKDOWN] Gruber, J., "Daring Fireball: Markdown", December 2004,
              <http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/>.
 

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   [MDSYNTAX] Gruber, J., "Daring Fireball: Markdown Syntax
              Documentation", December 2004,
              <http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax>.

   [MDUTI]    Gruber, J., "Daring Fireball: Uniform Type Identifier for
              Markdown", August 2011,
              <http://daringfireball.net/linked/2011/08/05/markdown-
              uti>.

   [RFC2045]  Freed, N. and N. Borenstein, "Multipurpose Internet Mail
              Extensions (MIME) Part One: Format of Internet Message
              Bodies", RFC 2045, November 1996.

   [RFC2119]  Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
              Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997.

   [RFC2231]  Freed, N. and K. Moore, "MIME Parameter Value and Encoded
              Word Extensions: Character Sets, Languages, and
              Continuations", RFC 2231, November 1997.

   [RFC3778]  Taft, E., Pravetz, J., Zilles, S., and L. Masinter, "The
              application/pdf Media Type", RFC 3778, May 2004.

   [RFC3986]  Berners-Lee, T., Fielding, R., and L. Masinter, "Uniform
              Resource Identifier (URI): Generic Syntax", STD 66, RFC
              3986, January 2005.

   [RFC5147]  Wilde, E. and M. Duerst, "URI Fragment Identifiers for the
              text/plain Media Type", RFC 5147, April 2008.

   [RFC5226]  Narten, T., and H. Alvestrand, "Guidelines for Writing an
              IANA Considerations Section in RFCs", RFC 5226, May 2008.

   [RFC5234]  Crocker, D., Ed., and P. Overell, "Augmented BNF for
              Syntax Specifications: ABNF", STD 68, RFC 5234, January
              2008.

   [RFC5322]  Resnick, P., Ed., "Internet Message Format", RFC 5322,
              October 2008.

   [RFC6532]  Yang, A., Steele, S., and N. Freed, "Internationalized
              Email Headers", RFC 6532, February 2012.

   [RFC6838]  Freed, N., Klensin, J., and T. Hansen, "Media Type
              Specifications and Registration Procedures", BCP 13, RFC
              6838, January 2013.

8.2. Informative References
 

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   [HUMANE]   Atwood, J., "Is HTML a Humane Markup Language?", May 2008,
              <http://blog.codinghorror.com/is-html-a-humane-markup-
              language/>.

   [INETMEME] Solon, O., "Richard Dawkins on the internet's hijacking of
              the word 'meme'", June 2013,
              <http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-06/20/richard-
              dawkins-memes>, <http://www.webcitation.org/6HzDGE9Go>.

   [MDMTUSES] Leonard, S., "text/markdown Use Cases", draft-ietf-
              appsawg-text-markdown-use-cases-01 (work in progress),
              February 2015.

   [PANDOC]   MacFarlane, J., "Pandoc", 2014,
              <http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/>.

   [RFC4263]  Lilly, B., "Media Subtype Registration for Media Type
              text/troff", RFC 4263, January 2006.

Appendix A.  Change Log

   This draft is a continuation from draft-ietf-appsawg-text-markdown-
   06.txt. These technical changes were made:

      1.  Defined the IANA email confirmation process.
      2.  Defined the fields for the variants registry.
      3.  Referred to use-cases draft.
      4.  Beefed up the encoding considerations.
      5.  Referred to the right section (Section 3) in fragment
          identifier considerations.
      6.  Added Original Markdown registration.

Author's Address

   Sean Leonard
   Penango, Inc.
   5900 Wilshire Boulevard
   21st Floor
   Los Angeles, CA  90036
   USA

   EMail: dev+ietf@seantek.com
   URI:   http://www.penango.com/

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