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Re: [rtcweb] When are ICE candidates added to the SDP

Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com> Tue, 13 May 2014 16:45 UTC

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Subject: Re: [rtcweb] When are ICE candidates added to the SDP
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On 13 May 2014 00:54, Silvia Pfeiffer <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com> wrote:
>> The name "createOffer" implies that the SDP delivered as the result of
>> createOffer is the one to use as an offer in negotiation. Looking at the way
>> this mechanism has evolved, this is probably only true anymore if one is
>> prepared to send the offer immediately, and then to trickle ICE candidates.
>> To obtain an SDP to use as an offer in negotiations without trickle ICE, one
>> has to call setLocal, wait for "end of candidates" and then read
>> pc.localDescription.
>>
>> So "createOffer" in fact does not create an offer, but an initial (or
>> updated) local description that is then fed into setLocalDescription to
>> start the ICE gathering.
>>
>> Do you agree with this observation? If you do, shouldn't we rename
>> createOffer to something more generic like "createLocalDescription" or
>> similar? "createOffer" does not create the offer (at least it does not do so
>> in case of non-trickling) but the input to setLocal...
>>
>
> I agree, the name is very misleading now.

I disagree.  Though I don't find any of this particularly intuitive,
the response to createOffer is still an offer that can be used to
negotiate a session.  The fact that it cannot be used immediately with
some classes of peer is unfortunate, but it's still good for
negotiating with browsers.

So yes, this new createOffer is only good for negotiating with a peer
that supports trickle ICE.  I think that's better than what we had
previously, which is *no idea what the browser was supposed to do*, as
demonstrated by the fact that the only two implementations in
existence did the complete opposite thing.

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