The document discusses next steps for the Hadoop project, focusing on adopting the Avro data format and RPC protocol. Key points include: 1) Avro would provide a more expressive, efficient, and dynamic data format for Hadoop that allows browsing and working with arbitrary data without code generation. 2) Avro includes capabilities for data storage, encoding, versioning, and RPC that could help Hadoop provide cross-language access and compatibility between versions. 3) The author plans to incorporate Avro starting with using it for Hadoop job history and then providing full MapReduce support, with the possibility of using it for RPC in future Hadoop versions.