Re: [apps-discuss] Terry Manderson's Discuss on draft-ietf-appsawg-text-markdown-use-cases-02: (with DISCUSS)

Barry Leiba <barryleiba@computer.org> Tue, 14 July 2015 15:53 UTC

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Subject: Re: [apps-discuss] Terry Manderson's Discuss on draft-ietf-appsawg-text-markdown-use-cases-02: (with DISCUSS)
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>>> "Guidance" is a good term to use.
>>>
>>> Guidance on Markdown:
>>> Design Philosophies, Preservation Strategies, and Select Registrations
>>
>> That seems reasonable, with a question: What does "preservation
>> strategies" mean?
>
> It means "how to preserve the text/markdown Content-Type along with its
> parameters outside of MIME bodies",
> or, "how to preserve the author's intent when the author wrote the Markdown
> content in a certain way, so that recipients know what kind of Markdown
> (variant) the content actually is, along with the charset".
>
> (Covered in Section 2.)

Yes; I'm questioning whether anyone reading the title will have any
idea what "preservation strategies" means.  What's the point of
putting words into the title that don't add to (and actually detract
from) the understanding of what the title means?

Barry