Dear IOR and mdtest users and contributors,The IOR benchmark has recently seen a revival of development with some substantial new features being contributed by members of the community. At present, the most feature-rich and actively maintained fork of the original IOR is at https://github.com/ior-lanl/ior , but the breadth of the community participating in that fork has grown beyond its original maintainers at Los Alamos National Laboratory.In response to this evolution, the current maintainers of IOR-LANL would like to move the IOR benchmark, including the mdtest benchmark that was recently merged into this fork, into an institution-neutral location. Therefore, we are planning to relocate the official IOR/mdtest to https://github.com/hpc, which is a GitHub organization with representatives from academia, government, and industry. Following this relocation, we will begin laying out a roadmap for IOR/mdtest feature development with the involvement of any and all interested members of the IOR/mdtest community.Before we relocate IOR/mdtest and begin feature planning, though, we would like feedback from IOR/mdtest users and contributors to gauge community interest and address any questions or concerns. Barring any major objections, we plan to move IOR/mdtest, archive the LANL fork, and begin roadmap planning in January 2018.Sincerely,The IOR maintainer team