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==== Members of the RFC Format Design Team ====
Nevil Brownlee (ISE), Heather Flanagan (RSE), Tony Hansen, Joe Hildebrand, Paul Hoffman, Julian Reschke, Adam Roach, Alice Russo, Robert Sparks (Tools Team liaison), Dave Thaler

==== Expected Outputs of the Design Team ====
   - examples of Publication outputs (they may be done manually and are designed to show what things will look like) a specification or set of specifications on what needs to be done to create the necessary tools for XML to be the canonical format that in turn creates four publication formats
   - documentation on what areas we have discussed and resolved internally so when I take this back out to the community, I can point to something that says "we discussed that issue, not discussing it again unless you have some new information that is relevant"
   - clear guidelines on how different scripts (see RFC 6365 for terminology clarification) will be allowed in specific sections of an RFC now that the UTF-8 encoding will be allowed in the Author's Address section (I expect this to have an impact on the tools, but I don't know what that impact will look like)
   - an SVG profile for tags allowed/not-allowed in the XML
   - document the requirements for the XML format and the transformation tool(s)

==== Open Questions ====
   - How will unintentional variations in output be dealt with?  
   - Will the Publication formats be allowed to change, allowing for modifications if the transformation from XML introduces format-specific errors?  Who would judge whether the bug was in the Canonical format rather than the Publication format?
   - How does xml2rfc fit in to this work?  What needs to change?
   - Given the end goals, what tools are entirely missing? (i.e., is what we have now sufficient for diffs?)
   - Will we have one or more "preferred" publication formats?


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[[design:call-notes|Raw, untidy, unformatted notes from the RFC Format Design Team calls]]