Meeting Agendas

SMPTE RIS-OSA members and guests are invited to join one or both days. Deadline for registration is March 11, 2024.

March 26:

Best Practices for Live Stream Distribution

  • 9am – Lobby check-in
  • 9:30am - Welcome & Introductions
  • 10:00am - What problem are we trying to solve?
  • 11:00am - What works well currently?
    • Are there some configurations we can point to as “model configurations”?
    • What can we identify as common ground between what the content provider can provide and what the streaming service can consume?
  • 12:00pm-12:30pm – AWS Media Lab Tour
  • 12:30-1:30pm Lunch
  • 1:30pm - What should we define as Best Practices?
    • Model of stream delivery
    • Security
      • Point to Point
      • Origin Distribution (biggest challenge – rarely secure now)
      • Current industry best practices (eg. Zero trust,  Oauth2, Catena, whitelisting)
    • Protocols
      • Point to Point (e.g. RTMP, SRT, RIST, 2110 JPEG XS, NDI, ZixiTS, RTP)
      • Origin Distribution (HLS Single and Multi Bitrate, MPEG-DASH Single and Multi Bitrate)
    • Formats for mezzanine and pre-packaged streams (eg. HD/4K/8K, Framerates, etc.)
    • Can we recommend avoidance of non-effective protocols?
  • 3:00pm - Can we enable service-based management of these streams?
    • Automate the process of configuring and provisioning new distribution points
    • Automate the management and support of these streams
    • Reduce manual effort
    • Minimize bespoke configurations
  • 4:00pm - Next Steps
  • 4:30pm - Outputs
    • Hand off docs to SMPTE for ultimate publication as Recommended Practices?
    • Can we demo best practices in six months?

March 27:

Plenary and Catena

  • 9am – Lobby check-in
  • 9:30am - Welcome & Introductions
  • 10:00am – RIS-OSA Plenary
    • Updates on initiatives handed over to SMPTE
      • ST 2125 – IMF Registration API
      • ST 2126 – Status Reporting & Logging (review updated doc and steps toward publication)
      • ST 2133 - Job Processing Architecture (review updated doc and steps toward PCD)
    • Current Initiatives
      • Vocabulary – on SMPTE and IABM websites
      • Catena – deep dive later in the agenda
    • New Initiatives
      • Best Practices for Live Stream Distribution
    • NAB RIS-OSA Presence
  • 11:00am – Catena
    • GitHub Review – SMPTE and Ross repositories
    • ST yyyy-10 – Interface
      • Document Review
      • Path to Public CD status
    • ST yyyy-20 – Security
      • Document Review
      • Path to Public CD status
  • 12:00pm-1:30pm Lunch
  • 4:00pm – Next Steps
  • 4:30pm - Outputs