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+# Meta
+[meta]: #meta
+- Name: Export Run Image Metadata
+- Start Date: 2024-04-11
+- Author(s): joeybrown-sf
+- Status: Draft <!-- Acceptable values: Draft, Approved, On Hold, Superseded -->
+- RFC Pull Request: (leave blank)
+- CNB Pull Request: (leave blank)
+- CNB Issue: (leave blank)
+- Supersedes: N/A
+
+# Summary
+[summary]: #summary
+
+The `report.toml` file created by the lifecycle exporter and rebaser should include `run-image.image`, `run-image.reference`, and `run-image.top-layer`. These values can be critical to a platform rebase process.
+
+# Motivation
+[motivation]: #motivation
+
+When publishing an image directly to a registry, parsing the [`lifecycle.metadata` label](https://github.com/buildpacks/spec/blob/main/platform.md#iobuildpackslifecyclemetadata-json) is inefficient--it requires a call to the registry after the image is published. Adding these values to `report.toml` lets platforms efficiently access this data after an export or rebase without a call to the registry.
+
+# What it is
+[what-it-is]: #what-it-is
+
+These values will be included when the lifecycle exporter/creator/rebaser binary writes `report.toml`.
+
+Here are two examples of `report.toml` content. (Other values are omitted for readability.)
+
+#### Image published to a registry:
+```
+[image]
+tags = ...
+digest = ...
+image-id = ...
+manifest-size = ...
+
+[run-image]
+image = "run/name:foo"
+reference = "index.docker.io/run/name@sha256:94f85561b0976bf1e2bef6b14de92299ebcd4c8148802cf9b217654651e4f416"
+top-layer = "sha256:83ad2f0b091621ce19357e19d853c8be1b8f4d60d99c281fc2db75e0f56df42a"
+```
+
+#### Image exported to the docker daemon:
+```
+[image]
+tags = ...
+digest = ...
+image-id = ...
+manifest-size = ...
+
+[run-image]
+image = "run/name:foo"
+reference = "5b90f9c0e189"
+top-layer = "sha256:83ad2f0b091621ce19357e19d853c8be1b8f4d60d99c281fc2db75e0f56df42a"
+```
+
+# How it Works
+[how-it-works]: #how-it-works
+
+This metadata is readily available when `report.toml` is created, so it will be straight-forward to extend `report.toml`.
+
+# Migration
+[migration]: #migration
+
+N/A
+
+This is an additive change to a metadata file and will be backwards compatible.
+
+# Drawbacks
+[drawbacks]: #drawbacks
+
+This metadata is written to the [`lifecycle.metadata` label](https://github.com/buildpacks/spec/blob/main/platform.md#iobuildpackslifecyclemetadata-json). It can be accessed by querying the config from docker daemon or registry. So we will be writing this data to two outputs.
+
+# Alternatives
+[alternatives]: #alternatives
+
+Do nothing and continue to require platforms to retrieve this information via alternative means--either querying the docker daemon or registry.
+
+Introduce a new output file (`lifecycle-metadata.toml?`) that contains everything in [`lifecycle.metadata` label](https://github.com/buildpacks/spec/blob/main/platform.md#iobuildpackslifecyclemetadata-json).
+
+# Prior Art
+[prior-art]: #prior-art
+
+These values are among those that `pack inspect` returns.
+
+# Unresolved Questions
+[unresolved-questions]: #unresolved-questions
+
+N/A
+
+# Spec. Changes
+[spec-changes]: #spec-changes
+
+The following would be appended to the [`report.toml` spec](https://github.com/buildpacks/spec/blob/main/platform.md#reporttoml-toml) (this section would be materially identical to the [`lifecycle.metadata` label](https://github.com/buildpacks/spec/blob/main/platform.md#iobuildpackslifecyclemetadata-json)):
+
+> run-image.top-layer MUST contain the uncompressed digest of the top layer of the run-image.
+> 
+>run-image.reference MUST uniquely identify the run image. It MAY contain one of the following
+> - An image ID (the digest of the uncompressed config blob)
+> - A digest reference to a manifest stored in an OCI registry
+
+# History
+[history]: #history
+
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+### Summary
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+### Motivation
+
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