On: Markdown: The Spec - it's coming and it's full of personalities

> I have a wishlist of people who should sign the resulting spec. Jeff and Gruber, of course.

Why them?

> A few markdown users (Doxygen, Github, ...)

Github are also implementors, hence the 2 or 3-years old "github-flavored markdown". https://github.com/vmg/sundown is their core library, with https://github.com/vmg/redcarpet as the ruby interface.

Why Jeff and Gruber? Popularity and Politics.

Jeff is already called the initiator of the specification although he just reacted to an email of David Greenspan. [0]

Without Gruber giving at least a nod of approval it will always have an "unofficial" feel.

[0] http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/10/the-future-of-markd...