[Responder] Cherie Ekholm I find the second bullet point confuses the issue. It makes more sense if you remove "As part of the definition of "authoring tool". In this context," and just continue with the rest of the sentence. There's nothing here that makes it sound like the author is part of the authoring tool, and the definition of authoring tool doesn't help even with the new wording. [Definition of authors] 
The proposal needs more discussion (see comments field)