Re: [rtcweb] Call for consensus on ICE transport parameter issue (February 15).

Ted Hardie <ted.ietf@gmail.com> Wed, 13 February 2019 18:53 UTC

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From: Ted Hardie <ted.ietf@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2019 10:52:49 -0800
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Subject: Re: [rtcweb] Call for consensus on ICE transport parameter issue (February 15).
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As an individual, I support this change.  While I agree that the benefit is
currently theoretical, I think having the breadcrumbs for what to do when
it ceases to be theoretical is worth the effort.

Ted

On Fri, Feb 8, 2019 at 10:42 AM Ted Hardie <ted.ietf@gmail.com> wrote:

> Over the the past few weeks, the working group has discussed whether to
> adopt a change to JSEP which would adjust how the ICE proto line transport
> parameters are populated in certain mid-session offers where the final
> candidate is a TCP candidate.  Outside of the extensive working group
> discussion on the mailing list, participants may also wish to review the
> follow issue:
>
> https://github.com/rtcweb-wg/jsep/issues/854
>
> and the conversations related to these two pull requests:
>
> https://github.com/rtcweb-wg/jsep/pull/862
> and
> https://github.com/rtcweb-wg/jsep/pull/863
>
> The chairs believe that there is technical consensus that this proposed
> change would not materially affect JSEP-only exchanges, since this
> parameter is ignored in those.
>
> The remaining technical issues are:
>
> * whether making one of these changes would improve interoperability
> between WebRTC and non-WebRTC clients which use SIP/SDP.
>
> * whether the additional complexity in tracking the use of UDP vs. TCP and
> populating the parameter accordingly is onerous or unwarranted for WebRTC
> implementations.
>
> After reviewing the discussion to date, the chairs believe that there is
> rough consensus for the first point, though there is also broad agreement
> that the benefit of this change is currently theoretical, since no existing
> WebRTC browser implementation has relevant code.
>
> On the second point, the chairs believe that there is no consensus yet
> demonstrated.  Because we believe that this is in part because the actual
> proposal has not been entirely clear, and the complexity is therefore
> somewhat hard to gauge, the chairs wish to make a specific call for
> consensus.
>
> Does the working group approve the change in the following PR:
>
> https://github.com/rtcweb-wg/jsep/pull/863 ?
>
> Working group participants who have objections to the change are asked to
> specify whether they believe it has a technical fault, whether they object
> on the basis of its complexity, or whether they have other issues related
> to the change they need to raise.
>
> The chairs are already aware of the objection of Eric Rescorla on the
> basis of complexity, and will factor it into the review.
>
> Please send comments by February 15th, 2019.
>
> regards,
>
> Ted Hardie and Sean Turner
>
>
>