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+---
+feature: (fill me in with a unique ident, my_awesome_feature)
+start-date: (fill me in with today's date, YYYY-MM-DD)
+author: (name of the main author)
+co-authors: (find a buddy later to help out with the RFC)
+shepherd-team: (names, to be nominated and accepted by RFC steering committee)
+shepherd-leader: (name to be appointed by RFC steering committee)
+related-issues: (will contain links to implementation PRs)
+---
+
+# Summary
+[summary]: #summary
+
+One paragraph explanation of the feature.
+
+# Motivation
+[motivation]: #motivation
+
+Why are we doing this? What use cases does it support? What is the expected
+outcome?
+
+# Detailed design
+[design]: #detailed-design
+
+This is the core, normative part of the RFC. Explain the design in enough
+detail for somebody familiar with the ecosystem to understand, and implement.
+This should get into specifics and corner-cases. Yet, this section should also
+be terse, avoiding redundancy even at the cost of clarity.
+
+# Examples and Interactions
+[examples-and-interactions]: #examples-and-interactions
+
+This section illustrates the detailed design. This section should clarify all
+confusion the reader has from the previous sections. It is especially important
+to counterbalance the desired terseness of the detailed design; if you feel
+your detailed design is rudely short, consider making this section longer
+instead.
+
+# Drawbacks
+[drawbacks]: #drawbacks
+
+Why should we *not* do this?
+
+# Alternatives
+[alternatives]: #alternatives
+
+What other designs have been considered? What is the impact of not doing this?
+
+# Unresolved questions
+[unresolved]: #unresolved-questions
+
+What parts of the design are still TBD or unknowns?
+
+# Future work
+[future]: #future-work
+
+What future work, if any, would be implied or impacted by this feature
+without being directly part of the work?