Use Cases

One protocol covers contribution, distribution, conferencing, and data. That is the point: sharing an implementation across all four is where the economies of scale come from.

Use case	Replaces	Why MoQ fits
Distribution	HLS, DASH	Sub-second latency at CDN scale, with the viewer choosing its buffer.
Contribution	RTMP, SRT	Pull-based delivery, optional on-demand encoding, and simple redundant ingest.
Conferencing	WebRTC	Bidirectional on one session, browser control of the pipeline, no SDP or TURN.
AI	WebRTC, WebSockets	Adjustable reliability, on-demand inference, media and prompts on one connection.