Re: [bfcpbis] BFCPbis: UDP- and TCP candidates and proto value

["Charles Eckel (eckelcu)" <[e-mail]>]

This issue was discussed in more detail on the mmusic list. Here is the solution Christer applied to draft-ietf-mmusic-sctp-sdp.

   "When an SDP offer or answer is sent, the rules in
   [I-D.ietf-mmusic-ice-sip-sdp] apply regarding when the proto value
   must match the transport protocol associated with the default
   candidate.

   If an endpoint switches between TCP-based and UDP-based candidates
   during a session the endpoint is not required to send an SDP offer in
   order to modify that proto value of the associated m- line.”

This seems like a good approach. I suggest we do the same for draft-ietf-bfcpbis-rfc4583bis by adding this text to section 10.

Cheers,
Charles

On 10/19/16, 3:06 PM, "Christer Holmberg" <[e-mail]<mailto:[e-mail]>> wrote:

Hi,

I guess one solution would be to allow the answerer to use a m- line
proto value that does NOT match the default candidate (or, doesn¹t
match
ANY candidate).
That would certainly work in this scenario - different from the SCTP
text, but would permit this behaviour, whilst still providing clear
guidance.
We would update the SCTP text too.
However, I fear that would go against the ICE spec; specifically, 5245
says:
  The transport addresses that will be the default destination for
  media when communicating with non-ICE peers MUST also be present as
  candidates in one or more a=candidate lines.
So we¹d no longer be adhering to that in the answer.
The text is certainly valid for the offer, but when the answer is sent
it
is known whether the peers support ICE or not.
In any case, I don¹t think there should be different rules for BFCF,
SCTP
etc. This should be defined in draft-ietf-mmusic-ice-sip-sdp as a
generic
rule.
I was thinking a little more about this: maybe indicating a transport in
the m- line that you don’t support isn’t a very good idea - even if it
won’t be used with ICE.
Maybe it would be better to say that the m- line shall contain a
transport
that the peer is “most likely” to support. In case of BFCP, I guess
neither TCP or UDP is mandatory to support, but in other cases there is
often a mandatory transport.

That still implies they need to support the transport in question, so
it’s not dissimilar to the SCTP text about default candidate.

The idea was that, if the answerer doesn’t support the transport in the m-
line of the offer, it would have to reject the m- line (as you pointed out
earlier).

Question really is - and this is probably something more for icebis than
here - would it be legitimate to relax that requirement in the text I
quoted earlier for the answerer? (The way it is written in 5245 suggests
it applies to both offerer and answerer). I don’t see it being a problem
for endpoints, but I’d be worried some proxies may expect behaviour here
which isn’t true.

I DID send an e-mail to the MMUSIC list (I think it is more related to
SIP/SDP-usage of ICE than ICE in general) about this a few days ago, but
nobody has replied. Feel free to jump on the discussion :)

Obviously, if you e.g., include TCP in the m- line of the answer (because
the offer contained TCP), but you don’t actually support TCP, the m- line
port value would only be a “dummy value”.

Regards,

Christer