The IETF process is a long burn. I’ve flown out to 8 in-person meetings, attended at least 30 remote meetings, left hundreds of comments on issues/PRs, and even authored the original transport draft. I have spent so much of my limited time on this planet working on this endeavor.
Unfortunately, this is the end of my involvement. I think the MoQ working group will produce something in 3-5 years, but it’s not something that I plan to use. I’m going to focus on my own MoQ fork in the short-term, even if standardization is the “correct” long-term direction.
The core MoQ group consists of 5 people from Cisco and ~5 people from CDN companies. This dynamic has meant that 99% of the focus has been on layer that Cisco could use and CDNs could sell to them: MoqTransport.
Unfortunately, the media layer (the M in MoQ) has become an after-thought. There’s interest in standardizing something but nobody intends to implement it. So instead, the transport has become overly generic and worse: molded around Cisco’s proprietary stack. And they have some bizarre requirements.