Re: [Ice] ICE Generation clarification questions

[Peter Saint-Andre <[e-mail]>]

I'm going to quickly submit -07 with relevant adjustments.

On 2/27/17 3:38 PM, Taylor Brandstetter wrote:
> Noting the connection sounds good.
> 
> On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 1:57 PM, Peter Saint-Andre <[e-mail]
> <mailto:[e-mail]>> wrote:
> 
>     Exactly. Would it help to describe it that way or at least note the
>     connection?
> 
>     On 2/27/17 2:55 PM, Taylor Brandstetter wrote:
>     > Another way of looking at it is that a given generation is identified by
>     > a local/remote ufrag pair, which will change on ICE restart.
>     >
>     > On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 1:53 PM, Peter Saint-Andre <[e-mail] <mailto:[e-mail]>
>     > <mailto:[e-mail] <mailto:[e-mail]>>> wrote:
>     >
>     >     On 2/27/17 2:13 AM, Thomas Stach wrote:
>     >     > Hi,
>     >     >
>     >     > I'm a bit confused about the definition of an ICE Generation
>     and how it
>     >     > is used in Section 14
>     >
>     >     To be clear for folks on the list, this is in reference to the
>     trickle
>     >     draft.
>     >
>     >     >    Generation:  The complete set of candidates sent within
>     an ICE
>     >     >       negotiation session.
>     >     >
>     >     >
>     >     >
>     >     > Section 14 and the definition of Half/Full Trickle then uses
>     terms like
>     >     > "first generation"
>     >     > "complete generation",
>     >
>     >     For half trickle purposes, I think it would be best to use the
>     phrase
>     >     "full generation" or even "complete set of candidates". That
>     is: under
>     >     half trickle, in the initial ICE description the initiator
>     sends all the
>     >     candidates it might possibly send.
>     >
>     >     > "the responder can respond with an incomplete generation of
>     candidates",
>     >     >
>     >     > "full generation"
>     >     >
>     >     > This seems to imply that the generation is not necessarily
>     the complete
>     >     > set of candidates,
>     >
>     >     The generation is as defined above: the complete set of
>     candidates sent
>     >     within an ICE negotiation session. It would be better here to
>     use the
>     >     phrase "incomplete set of candidates".
>     >
>     >     > but could grow during aICE Negotiation Session until
>     end-of-candidates
>     >     > is signalled.
>     >     > So the generation rather seems to be the extensible set of
>     currently
>     >     > known/exchanged candidates.
>     >
>     >     No, the generation is everything sent before an ICE restart
>     (if any). In
>     >     trickle the set can grow over time, whereas in regular ICE it
>     can't.
>     >
>     >     > It is also not clear to me if the candidates sent by the ICE
>     initiator
>     >     > and the ICE responder
>     >     > belong to  different generations or if the generation is the
>     union of
>     >     > both candidate sets.
>     >
>     >     It is the union.
>     >
>     >     Peter
>     >
>     >
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