# What is necessary to get long-standing discussions actually formalized into CommonMark?

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**Created:** [February 4, 2021, 9:27pm UTC](https://talk.commonmark.org/t/what-is-necessary-to-get-long-standing-discussions-actually-formalized-into-commonmark/3773 "2021-02-04T21:27:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![vas](https://cdn.commonmark.org/user_avatar/talk.commonmark.org/vas/32/1267_2.png) [@vas](https://talk.commonmark.org/u/vas)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2021, 4:50pm UTC](https://talk.commonmark.org/t/what-is-necessary-to-get-long-standing-discussions-actually-formalized-into-commonmark/3773/16 "2021-07-17T16:50:35Z")

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There have been oh so many discussions.

Look under the topic tag [Extensions](https://talk.commonmark.org/c/extensions/7?order=posts), particularly the topics with the most replies. See also:

- [How to move ahead with extending CommonMark - #9 by cben](https://talk.commonmark.org/t/how-to-move-ahead-with-extending-commonmark/3706/9)
- [Beyond Markdown](https://talk.commonmark.org/t/beyond-markdown/2787)

In my opinion the next plain text standard should start from scratch rather than try to achieve backward compatibility.

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