[nocman]

I realize that the "S" in ANSI stands for "Standards", but I think it is obvious to anyone who cares that the things which come from ANSI are produced by a non-profit national standards committee ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_National_Standards_Ins... ). As the Wikipedia page says, ANSI "oversees the development of voluntary consensus standards for products, services, processes, systems, and personnel".

I don't really see this as a valid comparison to what the folks behind "Standard Markdown" are doing. I agree with others that the Standard Markdown name was a poor choice. For me at least, it feels like they are saying "We're taking over now". I don't know if that indeed was their intent, but that's the way it comes across to me. I think they should choose a different name.

For the record, I really don't have any skin in the game here, as the controversy doesn't really affect me much.

[dragonwriter]

> I think it is obvious to anyone who cares that the things which come from ANSI are produced by a non-profit national standards committee

Which the "non-profit national standards committee" is just a collection of folks representing firms in the industries to which the standards apply.