In April 2012, ISO (the international standards body, which had already given us the core media foundations of MPEG-2, MP3 and HEVC etc.), finally ratified the version of an adaptive streaming standard: MPEG-DASH (DASH stands for Dynamic Adaptive Streaming using HTTP). The participating companies in the MPEG-DASH standardization (including Microsoft, Apple, Netflix, Qualcomm, Ericsson, Samsung, and many others) saw a vision of interoperability and convergence required for large-scale market growth in streaming video that trumped the prior emphasis on proprietary and competing streaming formats based around HTTP. In terms of sophistication and flexibility, DASH leapfrogged the existing multiple proprietary solutions with a single industry-defined open standard. Of course, publishing a standard only marks the beginning of the work to achieve detailed interoperable usage. The baton for a lot of the practical effort was passed to an industry forum to promote and catalyze the adoption of MPEG-DASH. The DASH Industry Forum (DASH-IF) is filled with member companies, including EZDRM, who are realists about the DASH deployment challenges. They are willing to take on the work of creating recommendations, filing bugs, and attending plug-fests and interop events with the belief that their business and the Internet streaming market at large will benefit a great deal from a convergence around DASH. For further information see https://dashif.org/