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> There are many flavors of markdown. We'd need a standards body, compatibility suites, etc., and for all the browser vendors to adopt it.

HTML has had the exact same problems.

You can say "CommonMark spec" and it's solved, isn't it?

Part of the reason for standards committees, is that just saying “this flavour” is not enough to convince everybody.

Standard is not only specification, but also tacit agreement by many parties to use same standard.

People that have skin in the game usually want a say on what flavour should it be.