[rtcweb] When are ICE candidates added to the SDP

Eric Rescorla <ekr@rtfm.com> Sun, 11 May 2014 23:52 UTC

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Subject: [rtcweb] When are ICE candidates added to the SDP
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See: https://github.com/rtcweb-wg/jsep/issues/11

Section 3.4 reads:

When a new ICE candidate is available, the ICE Agent will notify the
application via a callback; these candidates will automatically be
added to the local session description. When all candidates have
been gathered, the callback will also be invoked to signal that the
gathering process is complete.

However, we agreed in London that we would do "always trickle", and
that even if there were candidates available at the time when CreateOffer
(because of candidate pooling) was called, they would not be included
in the initial offer. Consider the following sequence of events.

0. pc = new RTCPeerConnection();
1. pc.AddStream(stream);
2. pc.CreateOffer();
3. CreateOffer callback fires with offer A, and you call
SetLocalDescription();
4. onicecandidate fires with candidate X.
5. pc.CreateOffer()
6. CreateOffer callback fires with offer B.
7. onicecandidate fires with null.

So, in London, I think we agreed that offer A would have no candidates.
The above text implies that if you were to examine localdescription prior
to step #5 or at step #7 it would contain candidate X, and probably that
offer B would
also contain candidate X.

Note that it's quite inconvenient for non-trickle applications to never
have any candidates in the SDP, especially after gathering is completed
at step #7. However it also seems kind of inconsistent to only update the
candidates after SetLocal() has been called.

-Ekr