Media over QUIC Update 00
The article provides an update on the Media over QUIC (MoQ) project, covering recent developments in the protocol specification, implementation progress, and interoperability testing efforts within the IETF working group.
Background
MoQ (Media over QUIC) is an emerging IETF protocol standard for low-latency video/audio streaming over the QUIC transport protocol (the HTTP/3 foundation). Unlike traditional streaming (HLS/DASH) which uses TCP+TLS+HTTP chunking with seconds of latency, MoQ is designed for sub-second "live" delivery by leveraging QUIC's multiplexing, 0-RTT, and loss-recovery features. Development is by a broad IETF working group (not a single company). This blog post is a community update aggregating links, ideas, and questions from the IETF's 121st meeting and related GitHub issues. The "CMAF Low Latency" model was the previous state of the art — MoQ aims to go beyond it. The audience is developers and protocol implementers, not end users.