An important aspect of markdown is hand authorship.<p>Markdown Annotations are certainly interesting and I understand where the hash idea came from, but this requirement adds friction to hand authorship, and requires new custom parsing logic for markdown renderers.<p>I would argue it should instead be:<p>- file.md<p>- .file.md.owners<p>Where the owners file is generated / readable by a program supporting this behavior, along with a reference to the original file and its hash.<p>This provides the same information and capabilities, while decoupling it from the source. It also means you can retroactively generate ownership without modifying original work.<p>In reference to: <a href="https://github.com/iainc/Markdown-Annotations#hash-annotation">https://github.com/iainc/Markdown-Annotations#hash-annotatio...</a>