Re: [rtcweb] Usefulness of ICE-TCP (Was: Comments on draft-ietf-rtcweb-transports-01)

Simon Perreault <simon.perreault@viagenie.ca> Wed, 13 November 2013 19:58 UTC

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Le 2013-11-13 14:43, Markus.Isomaki@nokia.com a écrit :
> So unless people have data that shows that "UDP blocked but direct TCP allowed" is in itself a very rare setup (this is a question, I don't know that either)

A data point: I was a user on such a network not long ago. It was an 
enterprise network and the enterprise in question is one that regularly 
sends people to IETF meetings. The firewall device (which is of a kind 
that is fairly common in enterprise networks) could not do stateful UDP 
connection tracking, so they just decided to block everything. Outbound 
TCP was allowed.

> I think ICE-TCP is definitely worthwhile for a WebRTC endpoint to support.

I get it now. Yes, for client-server connections, ICE-TCP makes sense. 
For peer-to-peer, not so much.

Simon
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