> With an RFC, too RFC 7763 does not define Markdown in any way. It acknowledges both the popularity and messiness of the Markdown family of syntaxes, register

> With an RFC, too RFC 7763 does not define Markdown in any way. It acknowledges both the popularity and messiness of the Markdown family of syntaxes, registers a so-broad-as-to-be-nearly-useless media type for the family, and establishes a registry of variants (https://www.iana.org/assignments/markdown-variants/markdown-variants.xhtml https://www.iana.org/assignments/markdown-variants/markdown-...). Critically here, it does not recognise Markdown as a usable markup format in its own right. Only as a family of often ill-defined syntaxes that may be tolerably readable in raw form, and with the correct, unspecified tools may be converted to a formal markup language like HTML. “Markdown” is utterly unsuitable as a publishing format. It’s designed as a writing format.