Organization: Pluto TV (Paramount) Title: Principal Product Architect, Advertising Integration GitHub: riedlse Role: Brings the ad-supported streaming / SSAI operator perspective to MoQ interop
Contributions
- Corresponding author of
draft-riedl-moq-ad-creative-signaling-00(datatracker rev-00, posted 2026-09-03 18:21 UTC) — “Ad Creative Signaling over the MSF Event Timeline,” Riedl’s first individual MoQ I-D. It carries the ad-supported-streaming / SSAI perspective onto the standards track: signalling ad-creative boundaries as entries on Will Law’s MSF event timeline so downstream players and stitchers can act on them — the first draft to build directly on the MSF event-timeline mechanism. Not yet WG-adopted or discussed on-list. - First RSVP to the 2026-09-02 virtual interop hackathon (list, Aug-21 18:36 UTC), committing 09:00–17:00 ET and offering:
- a public relay endpoint running stock moq-relay v0.14.8, supporting drafts 14–19, on UDP 443 with a valid certificate;
- two live SSAI channels running continuously;
- client tooling for catalog and session inspection.
- Registered those endpoints as
stitcher-moqin runner PR #112 — a GCPus-central1deployment at34-72-6-160.sslip.io:443, L4 passthrough for UDP 443 (WebTransport + raw QUIC) and TCP 443, real ACME cert, anonymous subscribe and anonymous publish scoped to amoq-testprefix. - Argued for live-media interop coverage over short clips: continuously-running live channels with mid-stream joiners “surface different behavior than short test clips” — a push toward data-plane and live-join testing that lines up with Mike English’s stated plan to broaden data-plane coverage in the runner.
- Earlier (Aug-14) posted the
#moqSlack thread comparing aiomoqt against moq-dev behavior.
Why it matters
Riedl is one of the few voices in MoQ interop representing a large ad-supported streaming operator. SSAI (server-side ad insertion) exercises track switching, discontinuities, and mid-stream joins — exactly the areas the automated matrix’s short-clip tests do not reach.