Networked Media Open Specifications community
AMWA open media-networking specification community
Major contribution
The Networked Media Open Specifications community develops open discovery and connection-management specifications for networked production systems, complementing rather than replacing audio transport standards.
NMOS is an AMWA community effort rather than a person or a single company’s product. Its work supplies open specifications intended to make networked media devices discoverable and manageable across manufacturers.
IS-04 addresses discovery and registration, while IS-05 addresses connection management. These are control and interoperability mechanisms around media systems, not an audio-packet transport equivalent to Dante or AES67; their strongest documented context is networked production infrastructure.
Key work
- Networked Media Incubator (2015)
- IS-04 Discovery and Registration (version dates not specified)
- IS-05 Device Connection Management (version dates not specified)
In the chronology
Selected sources
- NMOS FAQs | AMWA – home of JT-DMF & NMOS · amwa.tv
- AMWA-TV/is-05 · github.com
- nmos | Networked Media Open Specifications: Introduction · specs.amwa.tv