Trickle ICE: Incremental Provisioning of Candidates for the Interactive Connectivity Establishment Protocol
RFC 8838, “Trickle ICE: Incremental Provisioning of Candidates for the Interactive Connectivity Establishment Protocol”, is a Proposed Standard document published in January 2021 by E. Ivov, J. Uberti, P. Saint-Andre. It has since been updated by RFC 8863. The canonical text is published by the RFC Editor.
Abstract
This document describes "Trickle ICE", an extension to the Interactive Connectivity Establishment (ICE) protocol that enables ICE agents to begin connectivity checks while they are still gathering candidates, by incrementally exchanging candidates over time instead of all at once. This method can considerably accelerate the process of establishing a communication session.
What “Proposed Standard” means
An entry-level standards-track specification: stable, peer-reviewed and a solid basis for implementation, though it may still evolve before becoming an Internet Standard.
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- RFC 8837 Differentiated Services Code Point Packet Markings for WebRTC QoS
- RFC 8839 Session Description Protocol Offer/Answer Procedures for Interactive Connectivity Establishment
- RFC 8836 Congestion Control Requirements for Interactive Real-Time Media
- RFC 8840 A Session Initiation Protocol Usage for Incremental Provisioning of Candidates for the Interactive Connectivity Establishment
- RFC 8835 Transports for WebRTC
- RFC 8841 Session Description Protocol Offer/Answer Procedures for Stream Control Transmission Protocol over Datagram Transport Layer Security Transport
- RFC 8834 Media Transport and Use of RTP in WebRTC
- RFC 8842 Session Description Protocol Offer/Answer Considerations for Datagram Transport Layer Security and Transport Layer Security