Looking at MoQ with WebRTC eyes

One of the most interesting ongoing efforts in the standardization activities is MoQ, which is an attempt to provide a low-latency media delivery solution for ingest/distribution of media over QUIC. It does provide some overlap with WebRTC functionality, especially considering that many are looking at it as a way to overcome some of what they perceive may be limitations or constraints in how WebRTC does things.

As a person familiar with WebRTC for a long time, I was very interested in studying MoQ as well, to investigate the main target scenarios and how the specification plans to address them. This presentation will provide a brief introduction to MoQ itself and its architecture, and will then focus a bit more on parallels between MoQ and WebRTC, where available/applicable, and the associated challenges and opportunities. I will also share some implementation feedback, drawing from my experience writing a POC gateway implementation between MoQ (using the imquic library) and WebRTC (using the Janus WebRTC Server).