  On January 17th 2018, a forum on a possible Joint Research Activity on a
future common Beam Telescope was held during the 6th Beam Telescopes and Test
Beams Workshop (BTTB) in Zurich, Switzerland. The BTTB workshop aims at
bringing together the community involved in beam tests. It therefore offers a
suitable platform to induce community-wide discussions. The forum and its
discussions were well received and the participants concluded that appropriate
actions should be undertaken promptly. Specific hardware and software proposals
were discussed, with an emphasis on improving current common EUDET-type
telescopes based on Mimosa26 sensors towards higher trigger rate capabilities
in convolution with considerably improved time resolution. EUDAQ as a common
top level DAQ and its modular structure is ready for future hardware.
EUTelescope fulfils many requirements of a common reconstruction framework, but
has also various drawbacks. Thus, requirements for a new common reconstruction
framework were collected. A new common beam telescope evolves with the sensor
decision and the whole package including a reconstruction framework depends on
that decision.
