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I have prepared a [presentation](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/19Q90N6Z9HNF0t_bc2_jtUdYu2PKTPy1oFxuJsxrh2O8/edit?usp=sharing) for the "Formatting function signatures" agenda item.

@mihnita Did I understand right that you were going to add here your summary of my presentation from yesterday? Or is that somewhere else?

For tomorrow's agenda: It would appear that we need to clarify what "data model" means. I thought it described a data-only structure holding message data, but @mihnita [disagrees](https://github.com/unicode-org/message-format-wg/pull/195#discussion_r713449745). This is...

I have submitted #197 as a proposed consensus statement based on Monday's call. > Make sure we add to the spec some security considerations for custom functions: This is an...

@mihnita Should your previous comment perhaps be a review of the actual PR #197?

As mentioned during the meeting, the test suite for the `messageformat` npm library is pretty extensive, and relatively portable: https://github.com/messageformat/messageformat/tree/master/test/fixtures The test fixtures are stored as TS in order to...

TL;DR: Argument-less functions and standalone markup elements could be synonymous if the function registry allows for pass-through "formatting" of type+name+options entries as parts. --- Having pondered this question recently, I...

> I would permit arguments and literals for at least an "opening" placeholder. It could allow something like `{(a) +html href=(some url)}link text{-html}` -- using parentheses as literal delimiters as...

Re-styled and re-indented for clarity; the email style processing seems a bit broken here. I'll reply below regarding standalone elements; for the other matters this issue is getting rather off-topic....

@stasm How would the "before variables are resolved to their values" bit work? I definitely agree with having parts including the value before its stringified, but what would be the...