quick notes from the phone call today:

• Please send your e-mail addresses to Martin & Germán
• Area review: 
  • Rename “NVM” as “Storage-class memory”
  • Cloud storage to be used only as cost benchmark so not an area of its own
  • For the time being, we concentrate on HW aspects and do not include SW solutions (distributed fs, HSM solutions etc), we may broaden the scope in the future
• Area contributors (feel free to join!):
  • HDD: Vladimir, Loic
  • SDD: Vladimir
  • Storage-class memory: Martin
  • Disk storage infrastructure: Shkelzen, Vladimir
  • Tape: Kai, Martin, Vladimir (/somebody else from CNAF), Germán
  • Others (Optical etc): <nobody so far>
• We will (at least initially) use Google docs for our document
• NDA/non public information: not to be included
• Timelines:
  • German will setup a Google doc skeleton document & circulate it
  • By mid January, contributors to fill in skeleton doc (can start from Bernd’s last report, https://indico.cern.ch/event/658060/contributions/2889027/)
  • Another call in February (TBC)
  • Summary to be presented at next WLCG workshop / HEPiX (both in March)
• Next call: January 14th, 16:00