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Media over QUIC - Use Cases rev 01 lands on the IETF Datatracker

MoQ is designed to serve live tracks over a CDN to viewers with varying latency and quality targets: the entire spectrum between real-time and VOD. However, it's difficult to understand how to use the transport given the layering and complexity of live media delivery. This document outlines how an application could use MoQ to deliver video, audio, and metadata in a variety of scenarios.

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Draft Snapshot

  • Draft: draft-lcurley-moq-use-cases
  • Revision: 01
  • Last updated: 2026-01-24
  • Source: IETF Datatracker

Summary

MoQ is designed to serve live tracks over a CDN to viewers with varying latency and quality targets: the entire spectrum between real-time and VOD. However, it's difficult to understand how to use the transport given the layering and complexity of live media delivery. This document outlines how an application could use MoQ to deliver video, audio, and metadata in a variety of scenarios.

Analysis

This draft is directly relevant to the MOQ ecosystem and worth tracking because it reflects current protocol work or adjacent implementation guidance from the IETF process.

Abstract

MoQ is designed to serve live tracks over a CDN to viewers with varying latency and quality targets: the entire spectrum between real-time and VOD. However, it's difficult to understand how to use the transport given the layering and complexity of live media delivery. This document outlines how an application could use MoQ to deliver video, audio, and metadata in a variety of scenarios.

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