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

  • 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-moq in runner PR #112 — a GCP us-central1 deployment at 34-72-6-160.sslip.io:443, L4 passthrough for UDP 443 (WebTransport + raw QUIC) and TCP 443, real ACME cert, anonymous subscribe and anonymous publish scoped to a moq-test prefix.
  • 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 #moq Slack 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.

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