“For us, any potential merger between SRT and RIST is trivial. We will support these two protocols in any way. But for customers, it would definitely be a good thing,” was the frank conclusion from Ronen Sadan, VP of Marketing and Products at VideoFlow, a supplier of IP-based software and hardware for the broadcast industry. He was of course referring to Faultline’s scoop a few weeks ago about possible convergence between the groups driving adoption of Secure Reliable Transport (SRT) and Reliable Internet Stream Transport (RIST). Since then, we have been eager to hear opinions about what a common, open source, low latency standard would mean at various levels of the video technology stack – and the opportunities from increased…