DASH-IF

The DASH Industry Forum (DASH-IF) is a system which according to the company "creates interoperability guidelines for the usage of the MPEG-DASH streaming standard. It consists of streaming and media companies, such as Microsoft, Netflix, Google, Ericsson, Samsung and Adobe." They provide an open source version of this software also.

Interoperability
One of the main goals of the DASH Industry Forum as stated by the company itself is to "attain interoperability of DASH-enabled products on the market."

The DASH Industry Forum has produced several documents as implementation guidelines:
 * DASH-AVC/264 Interoperability Points V3.0: DRM updates, Improved Live, Ad Insertion, Events, H.265/HEVC support, Trick Modes, CEA608/708
 * DASH-AVC/264 Interoperability Points V2.0: HD and Multi-Channel Audio Extensions
 * DASH-AVC/264 Interoperability Points V1.0