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IETF MOQ WG: Knowing the start of a Subgroup

Cullen Fluffy Jennings posted to the MOQ working group mailing list on April 30, 2026. Three thoughts …. 1) I don’t deeply care about this one way or the other but I think we should make it mirror the end marker bits. I…

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  • List: moq@ietf.org
  • Thread subject: Knowing the start of a Subgroup
  • Message subject: [Moq] Re: Knowing the start of a Subgroup
  • Author: Cullen Fluffy Jennings
  • Published: 2026-04-30T05:07:47.000Z
  • Source tag: ietf-mailing-list
  • Message URL: Open in IETF Mail Archive

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Cullen Fluffy Jennings posted to the MOQ working group mailing list on April 30, 2026. Three thoughts …. 1) I don’t deeply care about this one way or the other but I think we should make it mirror the end marker bits. I…

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Three thoughts …. 1) I don’t deeply care about this one way or the other but I think we should make it mirror the end marker bits. If the original publisher knows it is the start, or knows it is the end, it should add the marker. I think we should deal with start of track, start of group, at the same time as subgroup…

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Three thoughts ….

  1. I don’t deeply care about this one way or the other but I think we should make it mirror the end marker bits. If the original publisher knows it is the start, or knows it is the end, it should add the marker. I think we should deal with start of track, start of group, at the same time as subgroup as it is the same issue.

  2. Imagine a case where you want to refer to the SubGroup ID in the catalog to explain what layer of a codec is in that subgroup. And assume you want the object ID to increment by 1 in the group. I'm just not seeing how it works in this case.

  3. Mostly I don’t worry about how we spell it on the wire but FWIW … My gut feel is we are pinning to very weird implicit signaling by taking two things that have nothing to do with each other, the subgroup id and the object id, then saying if they are equal, it means some third thing. I’d rather just explicitly signal the third thing and not have it be some implicit convention on how to use the first two things.

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