RD45 - Recommendations for 1996

• The RD45 project has made excellent progress in identifying and applying solutions for object persistence for HEP based on standards and commercial products
• RD45 should be approved for a further year
• The LCRB aggrees with the program of future work outlined in the RD45 status report and regards the following activities and milestones as particularly important

• Provide the object persistence services needed for the first release of GEANT4 in early 1997
• Collaborate with ATLAS and CMS in the development of those aspects of the Computing Technical Proposals which may be affected by the nature of object persistence services