With Lumen Technologies exiting the CDN business, following its sale of customer contracts to Akamai, so too does the US ISP withdraw from related CDN industry initiatives involved with R&D and standards development. One of those is the Streaming Video Technology Alliance (SVTA), a Lumen representative has confirmed to Faultline. However, while Lumen states as plain as day, “We will no longer participate in the SVTA and its initiatives”, the SVTA itself is not ready to sever ties so abruptly and definitively with one of its larger members. “That does not mean that Lumen will not participate in other initiatives,” countered a response from the SVTA’s Executive Director, Jason Thibeault. It’s true that Lumen may decide to stick around in…