Re: [Ice] Trickle ICE review

[Ari Keränen <[e-mail]>]

> On 28 Mar 2017, at 11:27, Peter Saint-Andre <[e-mail]> wrote:
> 
>>> - The name "ICE negotiation session" with definition of "A virtual
>>> session ..." is confusing.   I understand that we need a word for
>>> "period between restarts" and "period across restarts".  But what does
>>> "virtual" mean in this context?  And what does "negotiation" mean in
>>> "ICE negotiation session"?  Here's a possible suggestion: call it
>>> "single-exchange session".   A single-exchange session is the period
>>> from a single exchange of ICE description until the next exchange.  A
>>> "normal" ICE session is basically a multi-exchange session.
>> 
>>    This might be clearer:
>> 
>>       ICE Session:  All of the ICE-related interactions between ICE agents
>>          up until an ICE restart (if any).
>> 
>>    However, that definition probably belongs in 5245bis. The term as used
>>    in the Trickle specification is not limited to interactions between
>>    Trickle ICE agents.
>> 
>> 
>> I like that idea of using "ICE session" to mean the thing between
>> restarts as long as it's compatible with 5245 and 5245bis and it doesn't
>> cause confusion such that people think an "ICE session" is the time
>> period across all ICE restarts.
>> 
>> I originally thought it should go in 5245bis also, but Ari thought it
>> didn't make sense there since it would never use the term after defining
>> it.  
> 
> It's already used in 5245bis, isn't it? But we can continue to define it
> in Trickle.

It's used but not defined actually. We'll add this to the terminology of 5245bis.


Cheers,
Ari