2026-07-01: First-look — a new individual I-D provides a top-down overview of the whole MoQ protocol suite, and it is authored by a WG co-chair.
draft-westerlund-moq-overview-00“Media over QUIC Overview” was published on the Datatracker June 30 2026 by Magnus Westerlund (Ericsson) — a MoQ WG co-chair — and Zaheduzzaman Sarker (Nokia). Magnus announced it to the moq@ietf.org list the same day (“FW: I-D Action: draft-westerlund-moq-overview-00.txt”). It is an Informational document that ties the MoQ deliverables together: architecture, the data model, the transport, the streaming-format layers (MSF / CMSF / LOC), and security. Brand new and not yet discussed; logged here as a first-look.
draft-westerlund-moq-overview-00 | individual submission | published 2026-06-30 | Informational
Authors
- Magnus Westerlund (Ericsson) — MoQ WG co-chair
- Zaheduzzaman Sarker (Nokia)
Abstract (summary)
An Informational overview of the Media over QUIC (MoQ) protocol suite. Rather than defining new wire mechanisms, it aims to give readers a single map of how the pieces fit: the overall architecture (publishers, subscribers, relays/CDNs), the object/data model (Groups → Subgroups → Objects), the MOQT transport and its pub/sub + prioritized-delivery primitives, the streaming-format layer(s) that package media on top (MSF, CMSF, LOC), and the security/authorization story (Secure Objects, the auth workstream).
Why it matters
- First suite-level overview document the wiki has tracked — the MoQ WG’s output has grown into many documents (transport, MSF, CMSF, LOC, secure-objects, privacy-pass, C4M, plus individual drafts like moq-lite / moq-timestamp / moq-locmaf), and a single orienting document lowers the on-ramp for new readers and implementers.
- Co-chair authorship signals it is intended as a reference/roadmap for the group rather than a competing design; an overview I-D is a common precursor to (or companion for) a WG’s architecture document.
- Complements — does not compete with — the normative drafts: it adds no transport change, mirroring the “keep the core lean” posture the WG has held approaching WGLC on transport-18.
Status & Caveats
- Individual draft, -00, just published (June 30 2026) — not adopted, not yet discussed on the moq@ietf.org list beyond the announcement as of this writing.
- Detailed section contents not yet mirrored here; this is a first-look page. Watch for WG-list reaction, a potential call for adoption as a WG informational/architecture document, and follow-on revisions.
Related
- moq-transport — the core transport the overview frames
- moq-msf / moq-cmsf / moq-loc — streaming-format layers the overview surveys
- moq-secure-objects / moq-privacy-pass / moq-c4m — the security / authorization pieces
- subgroups-and-objects — the object/data model
- magnus-westerlund — co-chair, lead author