Subject: Re: [Tools-discuss] [rfc-i] Recommendation 9 from Results and analysis of the survey of I-D authors on formats and tools

From: "Salz, Rich" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2021 21:40:03 +0000

>   Supporting Markdown as an input option is a good idea - but why would you support a non-standard version of it?

Deployed usage within the IETF and I-D authors is a good reason.

>   CommonMark (https://commonmark.org ) is the relevant "specification" for markdown.

We use kramdown with a particular style.  I wonder if CommonMark would cause issues, or if we could just declare using it.