Zafer Gürel

Writing about Media over QUIC (MOQT), low-latency media transport, and IETF standardization.

Why We Built Our Own MOQ Stack, and How It Won an ACM MMSys Award

MOQtail, our open-source Media over QUIC Transport (MOQT) relay and client libraries, received the Best Open Dataset and Software Award at ACM MMSys 2026. It started with a decision that looked risky at the time. The fork in the road Two years ago, our MOQ research ran on moq-rs, an excellent early implementation. Then moq-rs moved in its own direction, away from the IETF MOQT draft. We had two options: stay on moq-rs and drift away from the standard, or build our own stack that tracked the draft. ...

October 31, 2026 · 2 min · Zafer Gürel

Hello World (again)!

This blog is a fresh start. I’ll mostly write about Media over QUIC (MOQT): how the protocol works, what we learn while building MOQtail, and how the drafts evolve in the IETF.

October 25, 2026 · 1 min · Zafer Gürel