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+```
+Filename: 314-allow-markdown-proposals.md
+Title: Allow Markdown for proposal format.
+Author: Nick Mathewson
+Created: 23 April 2020
+Status: Open
+```
+
+# Introduction
+
+This document proposes a change in our proposal format: to allow
+Markdown.
+
+## Motivation
+
+Many people, particularly researchers, have found it difficult to
+write text in the format that we prefer.  Moreover, we have often
+wanted to add more formatting in proposals, and found it nontrivial
+to do so.
+
+Markdown is an emerging "standard" (albeit not actually a
+standardized one), and we're using it in several other places.  It
+seems like a natural fit for our purposes here.
+
+# Details
+
+We should pick a particular Markdown dialect.  "CommonMark" seems like a
+good choice, since it's the basis of what github and gitlab use.
+
+We should also pick a particular tool to use for validating Markdown
+proposals.
+
+We should continue to allow text proposals.
+
+We should continue to require headers for our proposals, and do so
+using the format at the head of this document: wrapping the headers
+inside triple backticks.
+