> Perhaps would have been willing to lend his name to something that was just a more formal definition of what he's already created (without the additional stuff that other implementations choose to add).
I would assume he wouldn't have been, because "ambiguity is a feature". He has explicitly spoken against any attempt to produce a clear specification of Markdown, so it seems highly unlikely.
I feel like it's not dissimilar to what happened with HTML. Mozilla and Opera tried to get the W3C to write a better spec and iterate on HTML in 2004, and the W3C membership voted against it⦠they then, with Apple, started their own organisation (the WHATWG) which wrote their own spec called "Web Applications 1.0" which was essentially a new HTML spec.
I would assume he wouldn't have been, because "ambiguity is a feature". He has explicitly spoken against any attempt to produce a clear specification of Markdown, so it seems highly unlikely.