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Hi, Some of you will have noticed that the last session of the next GridPP meeting contains a discussion session on "the future". The reason for this session is that the experiment computing models and practises are evolving. Some new middleware components are coming in and some are going out. Funding is finishing for many projects and there are "Clouds" on the horizon. For the LHC experiments a lot **may** change during LS1 and we need react appropriately. So the idea of the session is to identify areas where we should be proactive and produce the beginnings of a roadmap in each of these. The reason for this email is to help identify the areas in which we need such maps and to start the discussion a little before hand so that people have had a chance to think about the areas in question and are not coming to it cold. The reason for having this session at this meeting is because it is a forum where we will have the sites, the people who work on middleware (support) and (crucially) the experiments. The different areas are of course related and independent. So the three areas to come to my mind are: - Storage - many issues here DPM support, posix access, xroot access etc etc - workload - job submission, clouds, jobs over remote data (over xroot or http) etc - networks - not sure what to include here. Any suggestions I have already had an additional suggestion of resource deployment and am very open to others or for suggestions that of what should be included in the areas that I have already suggested. So thoughts and ideas please... Best, david