The Streaming Media Connect virtual stage played host to a highly technical—at times speculative—discussion about Media over QUIC Transport (MoQT), the emerging IETF-backed streaming protocol aiming to replace clunky delivery mechanisms like WebRTC and legacy HTTP-based workflows with more flexibility and scalability. With input from nanocosmos CEO Oliver Lietz and Akamai Chief Architect Will Law, the conversation lacked the commercial framing that non-engineers need to get excited. This is a reminder that, despite the buzz around MoQ, the protocol remains a star for the future. MoQT builds on the foundation of QUIC and WebTransport, supporting real-time publish/subscribe (Pub/Sub) architectures for temporal data such as video, audio, captions and chat. Crucially, MoQT is not a media format, nor is it tied…