The FLO Forum has applied to make another level of the FLO (Forward Link-Only) mobile TV technology a standard through the Telecommunications Industry Association.
This is the Transport specification and specifies the framing formats and procedures for delivering specially designed variable sized packets over the FLO air interface, as well as the streaming layer for conditional access data and presumably for RTP data too.
The Transport Specification was developed within the FLO Forum Technical Committee and conditional access developers Nagravision and NDS were active contributors. Initially FLO had its own DRM system and now it operates with multiple DRMs.
The FLO technology was initially designed by Qualcomm and the intellectual property rights still, as far as the company is concerned, reside entirely with Qualcomm, despite the contributions made by other companies to the standardization process. Qualcomm has licensed other layers of the FLOForum standards for free to chip makers that already license CDMA from Qualcomm.