The standards, protocols and drafts WAI binds or tracks. Each row gives the issuing body, the status that body gives it, the date of that status, and what WAI does with it. Where WAI binds it, a label says where that binding stands.
As of 2026-09-30. Statuses change. Each status was read at the issuing body's own page unless the row says otherwise, and every link goes to the issuing body.
Protocols, envelopes and standards that a WAI extension or registration binds. The chip gives where WAI's binding stands, not the status of the external document.
The MoQ working group's milestone for sending MOQT to the IESG is December 2026. A milestone is a date for requesting publication, not a publication: MOQT, MSF and their companion drafts are Internet-Drafts, not RFCs. MoQ working group charter and milestones.
draft-ietf-moq-transport-21 · IETF, MoQ working group
WAI's MoQ Streaming Format extension declares WAI as a streaming format carried over MOQT. It tracks the draft without pinning a revision and defines no transport of its own. Live delivery over MoQ is on WAI's roadmap.
Issuing body's page: datatracker.ietf.org
draft-ietf-moq-msf-01 · IETF, MoQ working group
The same extension declares WAI's catalog fields, prefixed wai_, under MSF's rule for custom catalog fields.
Issuing body's page: datatracker.ietf.org
RFC 9420 · IETF
WAI's confidentiality extension derives the keys of a private channel from an MLS group.
Issuing body's page: rfc-editor.org
RFC 9605 · IETF
The confidentiality extension seals each object payload with SFrame under the MLS-derived key.
Issuing body's page: rfc-editor.org
draft-jennings-moq-e2ee-mls-03 · IETF, individual submission
The confidentiality extension names this draft's MLS-plus-SFrame binding as its construction. The draft has expired; the extension's byte-level framing rests on RFC 9420 and RFC 9605.
Issuing body's page: datatracker.ietf.org
AMWA BCP-004-01 · AMWA (Networked Media Open Specifications)
WAI's capability-constraints extension adopts the constraint-set grammar and register pattern of BCP-004-01 and BCP-004-02, so a sink can check a capability's parameters before dispatch. It does not adopt their transport or discovery model.
Issuing body's page: specs.amwa.tv
C2PA 2.4 · Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA)
WAI's reconstruction-binding and energy-binding extensions carry WAI assertions in a C2PA manifest for a decoded image, and the reference implementation signs such manifests. Live-video segment manifests (section 19) are not bound; see the related row below.
Issuing body's page: spec.c2pa.org
draft-pantos-hls-rfc8216bis-22 · IETF, Independent Submission stream
The capability wai.video.manifest renders an HLS media playlist per session class and seals it in a signed receipt.
Issuing body's page: datatracker.ietf.org
draft-ietf-green-power-and-energy-yang-04 · IETF, GREEN working group
WAI's energy-measurement extension says how a WAI acquisition class relates to this draft's data-source-accuracy identities: an implementation that also reports under the network-layer model should derive its class from that model's identity and state which one. WAI does not adopt that model, and names the draft by its designation.
Issuing body's page: datatracker.ietf.org
Codecs registered in section 5 of the WAI specification, with the current designation of each. The other registered codecs are cited in the specification itself. The codec glossary marks every surveyed codec WAI registers.
PNG, Third Edition · W3C
wai.image.png In the standard Mandatory floor.
Issuing body's page: w3.org
RFC 9639 · IETF
wai.audio.flac In the standard Mandatory floor.
Issuing body's page: rfc-editor.org
RFC 8878 · IETF
wai.text.zstd In the standard Mandatory floor.
Issuing body's page: rfc-editor.org
AVIF v1.2.0 · Alliance for Open Media (AOMedia)
wai.image.avif In the standard Recommended set. SPEC section 5 cites ISO/IEC 23000-22, which is MIAF.
Issuing body's page: aomedia.org
ISO/IEC 6048-1:2025 | ITU-T T.840.1 · ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29 (JPEG) and ITU-T
wai.image.jpegai In the standard Registered with an integer entropy decode in the reference sink, in the NeuralEntropyExact class at entropy consistency. The exact decoder calls no platform maths library, and its output is pinned.
Issuing body's page: itu.int
IAMF v1.1.0 · Alliance for Open Media (AOMedia)
wai.audio.iamf In the standard Immersive audio class; the sink supplies the decoder.
Issuing body's page: aomedia.org
ETSI TS 103 190-2 V1.3.1 · ETSI
wai.audio.ac4 In the standard Immersive audio class; the sink supplies the decoder.
Issuing body's page: etsi.org
AV2 v1.0.0 · Alliance for Open Media (AOMedia)
wai.video.av2 In the standard Registered among the broadcast and streaming codecs, outside the recommended set; the sink supplies the decoder.
Issuing body's page: av2.aomedia.org
ITU-T H.264 (06/26) · ITU-T (with ISO/IEC 14496-10)
wai.video.avc In the standard Registered among the broadcast and streaming codecs; the sink supplies the decoder.
Issuing body's page: itu.int
ITU-T H.265 (01/26) · ITU-T (with ISO/IEC 23008-2)
wai.video.hevc In the standard Registered among the broadcast and streaming codecs; the sink supplies the decoder.
Issuing body's page: itu.int
WAI does not bind these. They sit next to what WAI does. A row carries a chip only when WAI's roadmap names it.
Work in progress in standards bodies that may bear on WAI. WAI has made no submission to any of them.
MPEG Systems (ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 3), Exploration 52
An MPEG Systems exploration of the systems technology that AI-based media standards need.
A preparation note mapping WAI onto the exploration's topics. Nothing has been submitted.
JVET (ITU-T VCEG and ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29)
A call for video coding technology for a successor to VVC. It welcomes neural-network and AI-based tools alongside conventional ones.
Recorded in a research note in the standard's repository.
MPEG, Exploration 45
An exploration of coding for 3D Gaussian splats, with use cases, requirements, common test conditions and a call for content.
WAI registers wai.splat.sog as a candidate capability for Gaussian-splat compression.
MPEG (MPEG-AI, Part 6)
A work item on system-level media authentication across authoring, production, editing, storage, delivery and playback, with an open call for proposals.
A requirement-mapping note in the standard's research folder. It is a preparation document, not a submission.
Each row has an anchor, so other pages can link to it and each status is kept up to date in one place. Corrections are welcome on the open-standards forge.