I like the spirit of that effort, but it has a checkered history; it was born out of input from a private working group without input from the community [1].  I&#x27;m fundamentally against this philosophy as an open source advocate.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.codinghorror.com&#x2F;standard-flavored-markdown&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.codinghorror.com&#x2F;standard-flavored-markdown&#x2F;</a>