diff --git a/cloudevents/v2.md b/cloudevents/v2.md
index 39cf27fc6..021778d90 100644
--- a/cloudevents/v2.md
+++ b/cloudevents/v2.md
@@ -13,4 +13,8 @@ reduce the number of open issues and PRs on our backlog.
 - [handling of datacontenttype is inconsistent](https://github.com/cloudevents/spec/issues/558)
 - [fix(protobuf)!: Expose CloudEvent structure with explicit fields](https://github.com/cloudevents/spec/pull/1354)
 - [The case for minor version](https://github.com/cloudevents/spec/pull/1032)
-
+- [How should we handle text_data in proto](https://github.com/cloudevents/spec/issues/1186)
+- [Discussion on CloudEvent data and transcoding](https://github.com/cloudevents/spec/issues/1204)
+- [For discussion: SDK conformance tests](https://github.com/cloudevents/spec/issues/1181)
+- [Discussion of the meaning of optional](https://github.com/cloudevents/spec/issues/1215)
+- [JSON format spec review (for scope creep, ambiguity etc)](https://github.com/cloudevents/spec/issues/963)
diff --git a/cloudevents/working-drafts/xml-format.md b/cloudevents/working-drafts/xml-format.md
index a27f459e2..533fb4b91 100644
--- a/cloudevents/working-drafts/xml-format.md
+++ b/cloudevents/working-drafts/xml-format.md
@@ -5,6 +5,15 @@
 This format specification for CloudEvents defines how events are expressed
 in XML documents.
 
+The following are related to this specification but have been closed
+due to inactivity. If someone would like to reopen, and drive to completion,
+any of these issues please comment in the issue(s).
+- [Create a PR with some tweaks to the wording about relationship of context attrs and data](https://github.com/cloudevents/spec/issues/1250#top)
+- [Create an issue for CE xsi type](https://github.com/cloudevents/spec/issues/1238#top)
+- [XSD - Provide concrete XSD that XML Documents can Validated against](https://github.com/cloudevents/spec/issues/1015#top)
+- [Named Element 'ExtensionAttributes' of Type any](https://github.com/cloudevents/spec/issues/1014#top)
+- [add some info about extension attributes](https://github.com/cloudevents/spec/pull/1335)
+
 ## Status of this document
 
 This document is a working draft.