Re: [apps-discuss] Call for Adoption: draft-seantek-text-markdown-media-type

Tony Hansen <tony@att.com> Tue, 12 August 2014 03:22 UTC

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Subject: Re: [apps-discuss] Call for Adoption: draft-seantek-text-markdown-media-type
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On 8/11/14, 10:53 PM, Ned Freed wrote:
>
>> For registering the media type, Informational status should be
>> sufficient. It's not standardizing the format; just registering the
>> media type.
>
> Agreed. If, however, the document ends up expanding to include some 
> sort of
> shared base syntax (I'm not saying it should or will, but let's 
> suppose), then
> there's a case to be made for proposed.

I would write that as "If >>and only if<< ..." :-)

     Tony Hansen