Subject: Protocol Action: 'A Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Usage for Incremental Provisioning of Candidates for the Interactive Connectivity Establishment (Trickle ICE)' to Proposed Standard (draft-ietf-mmusic-trickle-ice-sip-18.txt)

From: The IESG <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2018 12:53:25 -0700

The IESG has approved the following document:
- 'A Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Usage for Incremental Provisioning
   of Candidates for the Interactive Connectivity Establishment
   (Trickle ICE)'
  (draft-ietf-mmusic-trickle-ice-sip-18.txt) as Proposed Standard

This document is the product of the Multiparty Multimedia Session Control
Working Group.

The IESG contact persons are Adam Roach, Alexey Melnikov and Ben Campbell.

A URL of this Internet Draft is:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-mmusic-trickle-ice-sip/

Technical Summary

The Interactive Connectivity Establishment (ICE) protocol describes a Network Address Translator (NAT) traversal mechanism for UDP-based multimedia sessions established with the Offer/Answer model.  The ICE extension for Incremental Provisioning of Candidates (Trickle ICE) defines a mechanism that allows ICE Agents to shorten session establishment delays by making the candidate gathering and connectivity checking phases of ICE non-blocking and by executing them in parallel.

This document defines usage semantics for Trickle ICE with the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) and defines a new Info Package as specified in [RFC6086].

Working Group Summary

The document has been a WG document since 2014, where it saw significant interest in the WG. The document has since then undergone several changes as a result of WG feedback, however none of those have been controversial. 

Document Quality

We have not received information about current implementations, however the document is a companion document to draft-ietf-ice-trickle, which is a normative dependency for the W3C WebRTC specification. 

Personnel

Flemming Andreasen is the Document Shepherd
Ben Campbell is the Responsible Area Director