Re: [rtcweb] [Ice] WGLC Review of draft-ietf-ice-rfc5245bis-12

I looked through all of Harald's suggestions and I reviewed the PRs since
then, and it appears to me that most, if not all, of Harald's suggestions
have been incorporated into the doc.

Do the two of you agree, or is there something still missing that we need
to do?

On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 12:32 PM Harald Alvestrand <harald@alvestrand.no>
wrote:

> Leaving in only the one with something left to write...
>
> Den 17. okt. 2017 21:26, skrev Christer Holmberg:
> >> I was thinking of something like:
> >>
> >> The exchange of information MUST result in the following information
> being available to the ICE agent:
> >>
> >> - Whether the remote peer supports ICE at all
> >> - What ICE options, if any, are supported
> >> - Whether the remote peer is Lite or Full
> >> - Whether the remote peer thinks it's the Initiating Agent or not
> >> - What candidates the remote peer wishes to make available
> >> - Whether an ICE restart is desired
> > Looks ok, but I am not sure what mean by the 4th, regarding thinking
> it's the initiating agent or not.
> >
> >
>
> The spec says that the initiating agent will take the CONTROLLING role
> if both parties are Full ICE implementations, or if both parties are
> Lite implementations. This means that it has to know that it's the
> initiating agent.
>
> In cases like Offer/Answer (without glare), it's simple to see which one
> is initiating. In cases with 3rd party control (both parties get called
> for setup), chat-line systems (both parties initiate a join) or
> protocols where glare is possible, something has to make the decision on
> which side has the Initiator role.
>
> I'd prefer to abandon the Initiator concept, and say that the exchange
> of information should give back the information to each about whether
> they should try to take the Controlling role, but that may be a larger
> rewrite.
>
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