Skip to main content

Using Interactive Connectivity Establishment (ICE) with Session Description Protocol (SDP) offer/answer and Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)
draft-ietf-mmusic-ice-sip-sdp-03

The information below is for an old version of the document.
Document Type
This is an older version of an Internet-Draft that was ultimately published as RFC 8839.
Authors Marc Petit-Huguenin , Ari Keränen
Last updated 2014-07-04
Replaces draft-petithuguenin-mmusic-ice-sip-sdp
RFC stream Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)
Formats
Reviews
Additional resources Mailing list discussion
Stream WG state WG Document
Document shepherd Flemming Andreasen
IESG IESG state Became RFC 8839 (Proposed Standard)
Consensus boilerplate Unknown
Telechat date (None)
Responsible AD (None)
Send notices to (None)
draft-ietf-mmusic-ice-sip-sdp-03
MMUSIC                                                 M. Petit-Huguenin
Internet-Draft                                       Jive Communications
Intended status: Standards Track                              A. Keranen
Expires: January 5, 2015                                        Ericsson
                                                            July 4, 2014

        Using Interactive Connectivity Establishment (ICE) with
          Session Description Protocol (SDP) offer/answer and
                   Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)
                    draft-ietf-mmusic-ice-sip-sdp-03

Abstract

   This document describes how Interactive Connectivity Establishment
   (ICE) is used with Session Description Protocol (SDP) offer/answer
   and Session Initiation Protocol (SIP).

Status of This Memo

   This Internet-Draft is submitted in full conformance with the
   provisions of BCP 78 and BCP 79.

   Internet-Drafts are working documents of the Internet Engineering
   Task Force (IETF).  Note that other groups may also distribute
   working documents as Internet-Drafts.  The list of current Internet-
   Drafts is at http://datatracker.ietf.org/drafts/current/.

   Internet-Drafts are draft documents valid for a maximum of six months
   and may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other documents at any
   time.  It is inappropriate to use Internet-Drafts as reference
   material or to cite them other than as "work in progress."

   This Internet-Draft will expire on January 5, 2015.

Copyright Notice

   Copyright (c) 2014 IETF Trust and the persons identified as the
   document authors.  All rights reserved.

   This document is subject to BCP 78 and the IETF Trust's Legal
   Provisions Relating to IETF Documents
   (http://trustee.ietf.org/license-info) in effect on the date of
   publication of this document.  Please review these documents
   carefully, as they describe your rights and restrictions with respect
   to this document.  Code Components extracted from this document must
   include Simplified BSD License text as described in Section 4.e of

Petit-Huguenin & Keranen Expires January 5, 2015                [Page 1]
Internet-Draft              ICE SIP/SDP Usage                  July 2014

   the Trust Legal Provisions and are provided without warranty as
   described in the Simplified BSD License.

   This document may contain material from IETF Documents or IETF
   Contributions published or made publicly available before November
   10, 2008.  The person(s) controlling the copyright in some of this
   material may not have granted the IETF Trust the right to allow
   modifications of such material outside the IETF Standards Process.
   Without obtaining an adequate license from the person(s) controlling
   the copyright in such materials, this document may not be modified
   outside the IETF Standards Process, and derivative works of it may
   not be created outside the IETF Standards Process, except to format
   it for publication as an RFC or to translate it into languages other
   than English.

Table of Contents

   1.  Introduction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
   2.  Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
   3.  Sending the Initial Offer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
     3.1.  Choosing Default Candidates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
     3.2.  Encoding the SDP  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   5
   4.  Receiving the Initial Offer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   6
     4.1.  Choosing Default Candidates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   6
     4.2.  Verifying ICE Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   6
     4.3.  Determining Role  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   7
   5.  Receipt of the Initial Answer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   7
     5.1.  Verifying ICE Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   7
   6.  Performing Connectivity Checks  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
   7.  Concluding ICE  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
     7.1.  Procedures for Full Implementations . . . . . . . . . . .   8
       7.1.1.  Updating states . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
     7.2.  Freeing Candidates  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
       7.2.1.  Full Implementation Procedures  . . . . . . . . . . .   8
   8.  Grammar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   9
     8.1.  "candidate" Attribute . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   9
     8.2.  "remote-candidates" Attribute . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  11
     8.3.  "ice-lite" and "ice-mismatch" Attributes  . . . . . . . .  11
     8.4.  "ice-ufrag" and "ice-pwd" Attributes  . . . . . . . . . .  12
     8.5.  "ice-pacing" Attribute  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  12
     8.6.  "ice-options" Attribute . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  13
   9.  Subsequent Offer/Answer Exchanges . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  13
     9.1.  Generating the Offer  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  13
       9.1.1.  Procedures for All Implementations  . . . . . . . . .  13
       9.1.2.  Procedures for Full Implementations . . . . . . . . .  14
       9.1.3.  Procedures for Lite Implementations . . . . . . . . .  16
     9.2.  Receiving the Offer and Generating an Answer  . . . . . .  17
       9.2.1.  Procedures for All Implementations  . . . . . . . . .  17

Petit-Huguenin & Keranen Expires January 5, 2015                [Page 2]
Internet-Draft              ICE SIP/SDP Usage                  July 2014

       9.2.2.  Procedures for Full Implementations . . . . . . . . .  18
       9.2.3.  Procedures for Lite Implementations . . . . . . . . .  19
     9.3.  Updating the Check and Valid Lists  . . . . . . . . . . .  20
       9.3.1.  Procedures for Full Implementations . . . . . . . . .  20
       9.3.2.  Procedures for Lite Implementations . . . . . . . . .  21
   10. Keepalives  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  21
   11. Media Handling  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  22
     11.1.  Sending Media  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  22
       11.1.1.  Procedures for All Implementations . . . . . . . . .  22
     11.2.  Receiving Media  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  22
   12. Usage with SIP  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  23
     12.1.  Latency Guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  23
       12.1.1.  Offer in INVITE  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  23
       12.1.2.  Offer in Response  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  24
     12.2.  SIP Option Tags and Media Feature Tags . . . . . . . . .  25
     12.3.  Interactions with Forking  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  25
     12.4.  Interactions with Preconditions  . . . . . . . . . . . .  25
     12.5.  Interactions with Third Party Call Control . . . . . . .  26
   13. Relationship with ANAT  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  26
   14. Setting Ta and RTO for RTP Media Streams  . . . . . . . . . .  26
   15. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  28
     15.1.  Attacks on the Offer/Answer Exchanges  . . . . . . . . .  28
     15.2.  Insider Attacks  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  29
       15.2.1.  The Voice Hammer Attack  . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  29
       15.2.2.  Interactions with Application Layer Gateways and SIP  29
   16. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  30
     16.1.  SDP Attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  30
       16.1.1.  candidate Attribute  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  30
       16.1.2.  remote-candidates Attribute  . . . . . . . . . . . .  31
       16.1.3.  ice-lite Attribute . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  31
       16.1.4.  ice-mismatch Attribute . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  32
       16.1.5.  ice-pwd Attribute  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  32
       16.1.6.  ice-ufrag Attribute  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  33
       16.1.7.  ice-pacing Attribute . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  33
       16.1.8.  ice-options Attribute  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  33
     16.2.  Interactive Connectivity Establishment (ICE) Options
            Registry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  34
   17. Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  35
   18. References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  35
     18.1.  Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  35
     18.2.  Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  36
   Appendix A.  Examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  37
   Appendix B.  The remote-candidates Attribute  . . . . . . . . . .  39
   Appendix C.  Why Is the Conflict Resolution Mechanism Needed? . .  39
   Appendix D.  Why Send an Updated Offer? . . . . . . . . . . . . .  40
   Authors' Addresses  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  41

Petit-Huguenin & Keranen Expires January 5, 2015                [Page 3]
Internet-Draft              ICE SIP/SDP Usage                  July 2014

1.  Introduction

   This document describes how Interactive Connectivity Establishment
   (ICE) is used with Session Description Protocol (SDP) offer/answer
   and Session Initiation Protocol (SIP).  The ICE specification
   [ICE-BIS] describes procedures that are common to all usages of ICE
   and this document gives the additional details needed to use ICE with
   SIP and SDP offer/answer.

   Note that ICE is not intended for NAT traversal for SIP, which is
   assumed to be provided via another mechanism [RFC5626].

2.  Terminology

   The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
   "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "NOT RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and
   "OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as described in RFC
   2119 [RFC2119].

   This document uses the terms defined in [ICE-BIS] and the following:

   Default Destination/Candidate:  The default destination for a
      component of a media stream is the transport address that would be
      used by an agent that is not ICE aware.  A default candidate for a
      component is one whose transport address matches the default
      destination for that component.  For the RTP component, the
      default IP address is in the c line of the SDP, and the port is in
      the m line.  For the RTCP component, it is in the rtcp attribute
      when present, and when not present, the IP address is in the c
      line and 1 plus the port is in the m line.

3.  Sending the Initial Offer

3.1.  Choosing Default Candidates

   A candidate is said to be default if it would be the target of media
   from a non-ICE peer; that target is called the DEFAULT DESTINATION.
   If the default candidates are not selected by the ICE algorithm when
   communicating with an ICE-aware peer, an updated offer/answer will be
   required after ICE processing completes in order to "fix up" the SDP
   so that the default destination for media matches the candidates
   selected by ICE.  If ICE happens to select the default candidates, no
   updated offer/answer is required.

   An agent MUST choose a set of candidates, one for each component of
   each in-use media stream, to be default.  A media stream is in-use if
   it does not have a port of zero (which is used in RFC 3264 to reject

Petit-Huguenin & Keranen Expires January 5, 2015                [Page 4]
Internet-Draft              ICE SIP/SDP Usage                  July 2014

   a media stream).  Consequently, a media stream is in-use even if it
   is marked as a=inactive [RFC4566] or has a bandwidth value of zero.

   It is RECOMMENDED that default candidates be chosen based on the
   likelihood of those candidates to work with the peer that is being
   contacted.  It is RECOMMENDED that the default candidates are the
   relayed candidates (if relayed candidates are available), server
   reflexive candidates (if server reflexive candidates are available),
   and finally host candidates.

3.2.  Encoding the SDP

   The process of encoding the SDP is identical between full and lite
   implementations.

   The agent will include an m line for each media stream it wishes to
   use.  The ordering of media streams in the SDP is relevant for ICE.
   ICE will perform its connectivity checks for the first m line first,
   and consequently media will be able to flow for that stream first.
   Agents SHOULD place their most important media stream, if there is
   one, first in the SDP.

   There will be a candidate attribute for each candidate for a
   particular media stream.  Section 8 provides detailed rules for
   constructing this attribute.

   STUN connectivity checks between agents are authenticated using the
   short-term credential mechanism defined for STUN [RFC5389].  This
   mechanism relies on a username and password that are exchanged
   through protocol machinery between the client and server.  The
   username fragment and password are exchanged in the ice-ufrag and
   ice-pwd attributes, respectively.

   If an agent is a lite implementation, it MUST include an "a=ice-lite"
   session-level attribute in its SDP to indicate this.  If an agent is
   a full implementation, it MUST NOT include this attribute.

   The default candidates are added to the SDP as the default
   destination for media.  For streams based on RTP, this is done by
   placing the IP address and port of the RTP candidate into the c and m
   lines, respectively.  If the agent is utilizing RTCP, it MUST encode
   the RTCP candidate using the a=rtcp attribute as defined in RFC 3605
   [RFC3605].  If RTCP is not in use, the agent MUST signal that using
   b=RS:0 and b=RR:0 as defined in RFC 3556 [RFC3556].

   The transport addresses that will be the default destination for
   media when communicating with non-ICE peers MUST also be present as
   candidates in one or more a=candidate lines.

Petit-Huguenin & Keranen Expires January 5, 2015                [Page 5]
Internet-Draft              ICE SIP/SDP Usage                  July 2014

   ICE provides for extensibility by allowing an offer or answer to
   contain a series of tokens that identify the ICE extensions used by
   that agent.  If an agent supports an ICE extension, it MUST include
   the token defined for that extension in the ice-options attribute.

   The following is an example SDP message that includes ICE attributes
   (lines folded for readability):

   v=0
   o=jdoe 2890844526 2890842807 IN IP4 10.0.1.1
   s=
   c=IN IP4 192.0.2.3
   t=0 0
   a=ice-pwd:asd88fgpdd777uzjYhagZg
   a=ice-ufrag:8hhY
   m=audio 45664 RTP/AVP 0
   b=RS:0
   b=RR:0
   a=rtpmap:0 PCMU/8000
   a=candidate:1 1 UDP 2130706431 10.0.1.1 8998 typ host
   a=candidate:2 1 UDP 1694498815 192.0.2.3 45664 typ srflx raddr
    10.0.1.1 rport 8998

   Once an agent has sent its offer or its answer, that agent MUST be
   prepared to receive both STUN and media packets on each candidate.
   As discussed in Section 10.1 of [ICE-BIS], media packets can be sent
   to a candidate prior to its appearance as the default destination for
   media in an offer or answer.

4.  Receiving the Initial Offer

4.1.  Choosing Default Candidates

   The process for selecting default candidates at the answerer is
   identical to the process followed by the offerer, as described in
   Section 3.1 for full implementations and 4.2 of [ICE-BIS] for lite
   implementations.

4.2.  Verifying ICE Support

   The agent will proceed with the ICE procedures defined in [ICE-BIS]
   and this specification if, for each media stream in the SDP it
   received, the default destination for each component of that media
   stream appears in a candidate attribute.  For example, in the case of
   RTP, the IP address and port in the c and m lines, respectively,
   appear in a candidate attribute and the value in the rtcp attribute
   appears in a candidate attribute.

Petit-Huguenin & Keranen Expires January 5, 2015                [Page 6]
Internet-Draft              ICE SIP/SDP Usage                  July 2014

   If this condition is not met, the agent MUST process the SDP based on
   normal RFC 3264 procedures, without using any of the ICE mechanisms
   described in the remainder of this specification with the following
   exceptions:

   1.  The agent MUST follow the rules of section 9 of [ICE-BIS], which
       describe keepalive procedures for all agents.

   2.  If the agent is not proceeding with ICE because there were
       a=candidate attributes, but none that matched the default
       destination of the media stream, the agent MUST include an a=ice-
       mismatch attribute in its answer.

   3.  If the default candidates were relayed candidates learned through
       a TURN server, the agent MUST create permissions in the TURN
       server for the IP addresses learned from its peer in the SDP it
       just received.  If this is not done, initial packets in the media
       stream from the peer may be lost.

4.3.  Determining Role

   In unusual cases, described in Appendix C, it is possible for both
   agents to mistakenly believe they are controlled or controlling.  To
   resolve this, each agent MUST select a random number, called the tie-
   breaker, uniformly distributed between 0 and (2**64) - 1 (that is, a
   64-bit positive integer).  This number is used in connectivity checks
   to detect and repair this case, as described in Section 7.1.2.2 of
   [ICE-BIS].

5.  Receipt of the Initial Answer

   When ICE is used with SIP, forking may result in a single offer
   generating a multiplicity of answers.  In that case, ICE proceeds
   completely in parallel and independently for each answer, treating
   the combination of its offer and each answer as an independent offer/
   answer exchange, with its own set of pairs, check lists, states, and
   so on.  The only case in which processing of one pair impacts another
   is freeing of candidates, discussed below in Section 7.2.

5.1.  Verifying ICE Support

   The logic at the offerer is identical to that of the answerer as
   described in section 5.1 of [ICE-BIS], with the exception that an
   offerer would not ever generate a=ice-mismatch attributes in an SDP.

   In some cases, the answer may omit a=candidate attributes for the
   media streams, and instead include an a=ice-mismatch attribute for
   one or more of the media streams in the SDP.  This signals to the

Petit-Huguenin & Keranen Expires January 5, 2015                [Page 7]
Internet-Draft              ICE SIP/SDP Usage                  July 2014

   offerer that the answerer supports ICE, but that ICE processing was
   not used for the session because a signaling intermediary modified
   the default destination for media components without modifying the
   corresponding candidate attributes.  See Section 15.2.2 for a
   discussion of cases where this can happen.  This specification
   provides no guidance on how an agent should proceed in such a failure
   case.

6.  Performing Connectivity Checks

   The possibility for role conflicts described in Section 7.2.1.1 of
   [ICE-BIS] applies to this usage and hence all full agents MUST
   implement the role conflict repairing mechanism.  Also both full and
   lite agents MUST utilize the ICE-CONTROLLED and ICE-CONTROLLING
   attributes as described in Section 7.1.2.2 of [ICE-BIS].

7.  Concluding ICE

   Once all of the media streams are completed, the controlling endpoint
   sends an updated offer if the candidates in the m and c lines for the
   media stream (called the DEFAULT CANDIDATES) don't match ICE's
   SELECTED CANDIDATES.

7.1.  Procedures for Full Implementations

7.1.1.  Updating states

   Once the state of each check list is Completed, If an agent is
   controlling, it examines the highest-priority nominated candidate
   pair for each component of each media stream.  If any of those
   candidate pairs differ from the default candidate pairs in the most
   recent offer/answer exchange, the controlling agent MUST generate an
   updated offer as described in Section 9.

7.2.  Freeing Candidates

7.2.1.  Full Implementation Procedures

   When ICE is used with SIP, and an offer is forked to multiple
   recipients, ICE proceeds in parallel and independently with each
   answerer, all using the same local candidates.  Once ICE processing
   has reached the Completed state for all peers for media streams using
   those candidates, the agent SHOULD wait an additional three seconds,
   and then it MAY cease responding to checks or generating triggered
   checks on that candidate.  It MAY free the candidate at that time.
   Freeing of server reflexive candidates is never explicit; it happens
   by lack of a keepalive.  The three-second delay handles cases when

Petit-Huguenin & Keranen Expires January 5, 2015                [Page 8]
Internet-Draft              ICE SIP/SDP Usage                  July 2014

   aggressive nomination is used, and the selected pairs can quickly
   change after ICE has completed.

8.  Grammar

   This specification defines eight new SDP attributes -- the
   "candidate", "remote-candidates", "ice-lite", "ice-mismatch", "ice-
   ufrag", "ice-pwd", "ice-pacing", and "ice-options" attributes.

8.1.  "candidate" Attribute

   The candidate attribute is a media-level attribute only.  It contains
   a transport address for a candidate that can be used for connectivity
   checks.

   The syntax of this attribute is defined using Augmented BNF as
   defined in [RFC5234]:

   candidate-attribute   = "candidate" ":" foundation SP component-id SP
                           transport SP
                           priority SP
                           connection-address SP     ;from RFC 4566
                           port         ;port from RFC 4566
                           SP cand-type
                           [SP rel-addr]
                           [SP rel-port]
                           *(SP extension-att-name SP
                                extension-att-value)

   foundation            = 1*32ice-char
   component-id          = 1*5DIGIT
   transport             = "UDP" / transport-extension
   transport-extension   = token              ; from RFC 3261
   priority              = 1*10DIGIT
   cand-type             = "typ" SP candidate-types
   candidate-types       = "host" / "srflx" / "prflx" / "relay" / token
   rel-addr              = "raddr" SP connection-address
   rel-port              = "rport" SP port
   extension-att-name    = token
   extension-att-value   = *VCHAR
   ice-char              = ALPHA / DIGIT / "+" / "/"

   This grammar encodes the primary information about a candidate: its
   IP address, port and transport protocol, and its properties: the
   foundation, component ID, priority, type, and related transport
   address:

Petit-Huguenin & Keranen Expires January 5, 2015                [Page 9]
Internet-Draft              ICE SIP/SDP Usage                  July 2014

   <connection-address>:  is taken from RFC 4566 [RFC4566].  It is the
      IP address of the candidate, allowing for IPv4 addresses, IPv6
      addresses, and fully qualified domain names (FQDNs).  When parsing
      this field, an agent can differentiate an IPv4 address and an IPv6
      address by presence of a colon in its value -- the presence of a
      colon indicates IPv6.  An agent MUST ignore candidate lines that
      include candidates with IP address versions that are not supported
      or recognized.  An IP address SHOULD be used, but an FQDN MAY be
      used in place of an IP address.  In that case, when receiving an
      offer or answer containing an FQDN in an a=candidate attribute,
      the FQDN is looked up in the DNS first using an AAAA record
      (assuming the agent supports IPv6), and if no result is found or
      the agent only supports IPv4, using an A.  If the DNS query
      returns more than one IP address, one is chosen, and then used for
      the remainder of ICE processing.

   <port>:  is also taken from RFC 4566 [RFC4566].  It is the port of
      the candidate.

   <transport>:  indicates the transport protocol for the candidate.
      This specification only defines UDP.  However, extensibility is
      provided to allow for future transport protocols to be used with
      ICE, such as TCP or the Datagram Congestion Control Protocol
      (DCCP) [RFC4340].

   <foundation>:  is composed of 1 to 32 <ice-char>s.  It is an
      identifier that is equivalent for two candidates that are of the
      same type, share the same base, and come from the same STUN
      server.  The foundation is used to optimize ICE performance in the
      Frozen algorithm.

   <component-id>:  is a positive integer between 1 and 256 that
      identifies the specific component of the media stream for which
      this is a candidate.  It MUST start at 1 and MUST increment by 1
      for each component of a particular candidate.  For media streams
      based on RTP, candidates for the actual RTP media MUST have a
      component ID of 1, and candidates for RTCP MUST have a component
      ID of 2.  See section 11 in [ICE-BIS] for additional discussion on
      extending ICE to new media streams.

   <priority>:  is a positive integer between 1 and (2**31 - 1).

   <cand-type>:  encodes the type of candidate.  This specification
      defines the values "host", "srflx", "prflx", and "relay" for host,
      server reflexive, peer reflexive, and relayed candidates,
      respectively.  The set of candidate types is extensible for the
      future.

Petit-Huguenin & Keranen Expires January 5, 2015               [Page 10]
Internet-Draft              ICE SIP/SDP Usage                  July 2014

   <rel-addr> and <rel-port>:  convey transport addresses related to the
      candidate, useful for diagnostics and other purposes.  <rel-addr>
      and <rel-port> MUST be present for server reflexive, peer
      reflexive, and relayed candidates.  If a candidate is server or
      peer reflexive, <rel-addr> and <rel-port> are equal to the base
      for that server or peer reflexive candidate.  If the candidate is
      relayed, <rel-addr> and <rel-port> is equal to the mapped address
      in the Allocate response that provided the client with that
      relayed candidate (see section Appendix B.3 of [ICE-BIS] for a
      discussion of its purpose).  If the candidate is a host candidate,
      <rel-addr> and <rel-port> MUST be omitted.

      In some cases, e.g., for privacy reasons, an agent may not want to
      reveal the related address and port.  In this case the address
      MUST be set to "0.0.0.0" (for IPv4 candidates) or "::" (for IPv6
      candidates) and the port to zero.

   The candidate attribute can itself be extended.  The grammar allows
   for new name/value pairs to be added at the end of the attribute.  An
   implementation MUST ignore any name/value pairs it doesn't
   understand.

8.2.  "remote-candidates" Attribute

   The syntax of the "remote-candidates" attribute is defined using
   Augmented BNF as defined in RFC 5234 [RFC5234].  The remote-
   candidates attribute is a media-level attribute only.

   remote-candidate-att = "remote-candidates" ":" remote-candidate
                            0*(SP remote-candidate)
   remote-candidate = component-ID SP connection-address SP port

   The attribute contains a connection-address and port for each
   component.  The ordering of components is irrelevant.  However, a
   value MUST be present for each component of a media stream.  This
   attribute MUST be included in an offer by a controlling agent for a
   media stream that is Completed, and MUST NOT be included in any other
   case.

8.3.  "ice-lite" and "ice-mismatch" Attributes

   The syntax of the "ice-lite" and "ice-mismatch" attributes, both of
   which are flags, is:

   ice-lite               = "ice-lite"
   ice-mismatch           = "ice-mismatch"

Petit-Huguenin & Keranen Expires January 5, 2015               [Page 11]
Internet-Draft              ICE SIP/SDP Usage                  July 2014

   "ice-lite" is a session-level attribute only, and indicates that an
   agent is a lite implementation.  "ice-mismatch" is a media-level
   attribute only, and when present in an answer, indicates that the
   offer arrived with a default destination for a media component that
   didn't have a corresponding candidate attribute.

8.4.  "ice-ufrag" and "ice-pwd" Attributes

   The "ice-ufrag" and "ice-pwd" attributes convey the username fragment
   and password used by ICE for message integrity.  Their syntax is:

   ice-pwd-att           = "ice-pwd" ":" password
   ice-ufrag-att         = "ice-ufrag" ":" ufrag
   password              = 22*256ice-char
   ufrag                 = 4*256ice-char

   The "ice-pwd" and "ice-ufrag" attributes can appear at either the
   session-level or media-level.  When present in both, the value in the
   media-level takes precedence.  Thus, the value at the session-level
   is effectively a default that applies to all media streams, unless
   overridden by a media-level value.  Whether present at the session or
   media-level, there MUST be an ice-pwd and ice-ufrag attribute for
   each media stream.  If two media streams have identical ice-ufrag's,
   they MUST have identical ice-pwd's.

   The ice-ufrag and ice-pwd attributes MUST be chosen randomly at the
   beginning of a session.  The ice-ufrag attribute MUST contain at
   least 24 bits of randomness, and the ice-pwd attribute MUST contain
   at least 128 bits of randomness.  This means that the ice-ufrag
   attribute will be at least 4 characters long, and the ice-pwd at
   least 22 characters long, since the grammar for these attributes
   allows for 6 bits of randomness per character.  The attributes MAY be
   longer than 4 and 22 characters, respectively, of course, up to 256
   characters.  The upper limit allows for buffer sizing in
   implementations.  Its large upper limit allows for increased amounts
   of randomness to be added over time.  For compatibility with the 512
   character limitation for the STUN username attribute value and for
   bandwidth conservation considerations, the ice-ufrag attribute MUST
   NOT be longer than 32 characters when sending, but an implementation
   MUST accept up to 256 characters when receiving.

8.5.  "ice-pacing" Attribute

   The "ice-pacing" attribute indicates the desired connectivity check
   pacing, in milliseconds, for this agent (see Section 12.2 of
   [ICE-BIS]).  The syntax is:

Petit-Huguenin & Keranen Expires January 5, 2015               [Page 12]
Internet-Draft              ICE SIP/SDP Usage                  July 2014

   ice-pacing-att            = "ice-pacing" ":" pacing-value
   pacing-value              = 1*10DIGIT

8.6.  "ice-options" Attribute

   The "ice-options" attribute is a session- and media-level attribute.
   It contains a series of tokens that identify the options supported by
   the agent.  Its grammar is:

   ice-options           = "ice-options" ":" ice-option-tag
                             0*(SP ice-option-tag)
   ice-option-tag        = 1*ice-char

   The existence of an ice-option can indicate that a certain extension
   is supported by the agent and will be used or that the extension is
   used only if the other agent is willing to use it too.  In order to
   avoid ambiguity, documents defining new options must indicate which
   case applies to the defined extensions.

9.  Subsequent Offer/Answer Exchanges

   Either agent MAY generate a subsequent offer at any time allowed by
   RFC 3264 [RFC3264].  The rules in Section 7 will cause the
   controlling agent to send an updated offer at the conclusion of ICE
   processing when ICE has selected different candidate pairs from the
   default pairs.  This section defines rules for construction of
   subsequent offers and answers.

   Should a subsequent offer be rejected, ICE processing continues as if
   the subsequent offer had never been made.

9.1.  Generating the Offer

9.1.1.  Procedures for All Implementations

9.1.1.1.  ICE Restarts

   An agent MAY restart ICE processing for an existing media stream.  An
   ICE restart, as the name implies, will cause all previous states of
   ICE processing to be flushed and checks to start anew.  The only
   difference between an ICE restart and a brand new media session is
   that, during the restart, media can continue to be sent to the
   previously validated pair.

   An agent MUST restart ICE for a media stream if:

   o  The offer is being generated for the purposes of changing the
      target of the media stream.  In other words, if an agent wants to

Petit-Huguenin & Keranen Expires January 5, 2015               [Page 13]
Internet-Draft              ICE SIP/SDP Usage                  July 2014

      generate an updated offer that, had ICE not been in use, would
      result in a new value for the destination of a media component.

   o  An agent is changing its implementation level.  This typically
      only happens in third party call control use cases, where the
      entity performing the signaling is not the entity receiving the
      media, and it has changed the target of media mid-session to
      another entity that has a different ICE implementation.

   These rules imply that setting the IP address in the c line to
   0.0.0.0 will cause an ICE restart.  Consequently, ICE implementations
   MUST NOT utilize this mechanism for call hold, and instead MUST use
   a=inactive and a=sendonly as described in [RFC3264].

   To restart ICE, an agent MUST change both the ice-pwd and the ice-
   ufrag for the media stream in an offer.  Note that it is permissible
   to use a session-level attribute in one offer, but to provide the
   same ice-pwd or ice-ufrag as a media-level attribute in a subsequent
   offer.  This is not a change in password, just a change in its
   representation, and does not cause an ICE restart.

   An agent sets the rest of the fields in the SDP for this media stream
   as it would in an initial offer of this media stream (see
   Section 3.2).  Consequently, the set of candidates MAY include some,
   none, or all of the previous candidates for that stream and MAY
   include a totally new set of candidates.

9.1.1.2.  Removing a Media Stream

   If an agent removes a media stream by setting its port to zero, it
   MUST NOT include any candidate attributes for that media stream and
   SHOULD NOT include any other ICE-related attributes defined in
   Section 8 for that media stream.

9.1.1.3.  Adding a Media Stream

   If an agent wishes to add a new media stream, it sets the fields in
   the SDP for this media stream as if this was an initial offer for
   that media stream (see Section 3.2).  This will cause ICE processing
   to begin for this media stream.

9.1.2.  Procedures for Full Implementations

   This section describes additional procedures for full
   implementations, covering existing media streams.

Petit-Huguenin & Keranen Expires January 5, 2015               [Page 14]
Internet-Draft              ICE SIP/SDP Usage                  July 2014

   The username fragments, password, and implementation level MUST
   remain the same as used previously.  If an agent needs to change one
   of these, it MUST restart ICE for that media stream.

   Additional behavior depends on the state ICE processing for that
   media stream.

9.1.2.1.  Existing Media Streams with ICE Running

   If an agent generates an updated offer including a media stream that
   was previously established, and for which ICE checks are in the
   Running state, the agent follows the procedures defined here.

   An agent MUST include candidate attributes for all local candidates
   it had signaled previously for that media stream.  The properties of
   that candidate as signaled in SDP -- the priority, foundation, type,
   and related transport address -- SHOULD remain the same.  The IP
   address, port, and transport protocol, which fundamentally identify
   that candidate, MUST remain the same (if they change, it would be a
   new candidate).  The component ID MUST remain the same.  The agent
   MAY include additional candidates it did not offer previously, but
   which it has gathered since the last offer/answer exchange, including
   peer reflexive candidates.

   The agent MAY change the default destination for media.  As with
   initial offers, there MUST be a set of candidate attributes in the
   offer matching this default destination.

9.1.2.2.  Existing Media Streams with ICE Completed

   If an agent generates an updated offer including a media stream that
   was previously established, and for which ICE checks are in the
   Completed state, the agent follows the procedures defined here.

   The default destination for media (i.e., the values of the IP
   addresses and ports in the m and c lines used for that media stream)
   MUST be the local candidate from the highest-priority nominated pair
   in the valid list for each component.  This "fixes" the default
   destination for media to equal the destination ICE has selected for
   media.

   The agent MUST include candidate attributes for candidates matching
   the default destination for each component of the media stream, and
   MUST NOT include any other candidates.

   In addition, if the agent is controlling, it MUST include the
   a=remote-candidates attribute for each media stream whose check list
   is in the Completed state.  The attribute contains the remote

Petit-Huguenin & Keranen Expires January 5, 2015               [Page 15]
Internet-Draft              ICE SIP/SDP Usage                  July 2014

   candidates from the highest-priority nominated pair in the valid list
   for each component of that media stream.  It is needed to avoid a
   race condition whereby the controlling agent chooses its pairs, but
   the updated offer beats the connectivity checks to the controlled
   agent, which doesn't even know these pairs are valid, let alone
   selected.  See Appendix B for elaboration on this race condition.

9.1.3.  Procedures for Lite Implementations

9.1.3.1.  Existing Media Streams with ICE Running

   This section describes procedures for lite implementations for
   existing streams for which ICE is running.

   A lite implementation MUST include all of its candidates for each
   component of each media stream in an a=candidate attribute in any
   subsequent offer.  These candidates are formed identically to the
   procedures for initial offers, as described in section 4.2 of
   [ICE-BIS].

   A lite implementation MUST NOT add additional host candidates in a
   subsequent offer.  If an agent needs to offer additional candidates,
   it MUST restart ICE.

   The username fragments, password, and implementation level MUST
   remain the same as used previously.  If an agent needs to change one
   of these, it MUST restart ICE for that media stream.

9.1.3.2.  Existing Media Streams with ICE Completed

   If ICE has completed for a media stream, the default destination for
   that media stream MUST be set to the remote candidate of the
   candidate pair for that component in the valid list.  For a lite
   implementation, there is always just a single candidate pair in the
   valid list for each component of a media stream.  Additionally, the
   agent MUST include a candidate attribute for each default
   destination.

   Additionally, if the agent is controlling (which only happens when
   both agents are lite), the agent MUST include the a=remote-candidates
   attribute for each media stream.  The attribute contains the remote
   candidates from the candidate pairs in the valid list (one pair for
   each component of each media stream).

Petit-Huguenin & Keranen Expires January 5, 2015               [Page 16]
Internet-Draft              ICE SIP/SDP Usage                  July 2014

9.2.  Receiving the Offer and Generating an Answer

9.2.1.  Procedures for All Implementations

   When receiving a subsequent offer within an existing session, an
   agent MUST reapply the verification procedures in Section 4.2 without
   regard to the results of verification from any previous offer/answer
   exchanges.  Indeed, it is possible that a previous offer/answer
   exchange resulted in ICE not being used, but it is used as a
   consequence of a subsequent exchange.

9.2.1.1.  Detecting ICE Restart

   If the offer contained a change in the a=ice-ufrag or a=ice-pwd
   attributes compared to the previous SDP from the peer, it indicates
   that ICE is restarting for this media stream.  If all media streams
   are restarting, then ICE is restarting overall.

   If ICE is restarting for a media stream:

   o  The agent MUST change the a=ice-ufrag and a=ice-pwd attributes in
      the answer.

   o  The agent MAY change its implementation level in the answer.

   An agent sets the rest of the fields in the SDP for this media stream
   as it would in an initial answer to this media stream (see
   Section 3.2).  Consequently, the set of candidates MAY include some,
   none, or all of the previous candidates for that stream and MAY
   include a totally new set of candidates.

9.2.1.2.  New Media Stream

   If the offer contains a new media stream, the agent sets the fields
   in the answer as if it had received an initial offer containing that
   media stream (see Section 3.2).  This will cause ICE processing to
   begin for this media stream.

9.2.1.3.  Removed Media Stream

   If an offer contains a media stream whose port is zero, the agent
   MUST NOT include any candidate attributes for that media stream in
   its answer and SHOULD NOT include any other ICE-related attributes
   defined in Section 8 for that media stream.

Petit-Huguenin & Keranen Expires January 5, 2015               [Page 17]
Internet-Draft              ICE SIP/SDP Usage                  July 2014

9.2.2.  Procedures for Full Implementations

   Unless the agent has detected an ICE restart from the offer, the
   username fragments, password, and implementation level MUST remain
   the same as used previously.  If an agent needs to change one of
   these it MUST restart ICE for that media stream by generating an
   offer; ICE cannot be restarted in an answer.

   Additional behaviors depend on the state of ICE processing for that
   media stream.

9.2.2.1.  Existing Media Streams with ICE Running and no remote-
          candidates

   If ICE is running for a media stream, and the offer for that media
   stream lacked the remote-candidates attribute, the rules for
   construction of the answer are identical to those for the offerer as
   described in Section 9.1.2.1.

9.2.2.2.  Existing Media Streams with ICE Completed and no remote-
          candidates

   If ICE is Completed for a media stream, and the offer for that media
   stream lacked the remote-candidates attribute, the rules for
   construction of the answer are identical to those for the offerer as
   described in Section 9.1.2.2, except that the answerer MUST NOT
   include the a=remote-candidates attribute in the answer.

9.2.2.3.  Existing Media Streams and remote-candidates

   A controlled agent will receive an offer with the a=remote-candidates
   attribute for a media stream when its peer has concluded ICE
   processing for that media stream.  This attribute is present in the
   offer to deal with a race condition between the receipt of the offer,
   and the receipt of the Binding response that tells the answerer the
   candidate that will be selected by ICE.  See Appendix B for an
   explanation of this race condition.  Consequently, processing of an
   offer with this attribute depends on the winner of the race.

   The agent forms a candidate pair for each component of the media
   stream by:

   o  Setting the remote candidate equal to the offerer's default
      destination for that component (e.g., the contents of the m and c
      lines for RTP, and the a=rtcp attribute for RTCP)

Petit-Huguenin & Keranen Expires January 5, 2015               [Page 18]
Internet-Draft              ICE SIP/SDP Usage                  July 2014

   o  Setting the local candidate equal to the transport address for
      that same component in the a=remote-candidates attribute in the
      offer.

   The agent then sees if each of these candidate pairs is present in
   the valid list.  If a particular pair is not in the valid list, the
   check has "lost" the race.  Call such a pair a "losing pair".

   The agent finds all the pairs in the check list whose remote
   candidates equal the remote candidate in the losing pair:

   o  If none of the pairs are In-Progress, and at least one is Failed,
      it is most likely that a network failure, such as a network
      partition or serious packet loss, has occurred.  The agent SHOULD
      generate an answer for this media stream as if the remote-
      candidates attribute had not been present, and then restart ICE
      for this stream.

   o  If at least one of the pairs is In-Progress, the agent SHOULD wait
      for those checks to complete, and as each completes, redo the
      processing in this section until there are no losing pairs.

   Once there are no losing pairs, the agent can generate the answer.
   It MUST set the default destination for media to the candidates in
   the remote-candidates attribute from the offer (each of which will
   now be the local candidate of a candidate pair in the valid list).
   It MUST include a candidate attribute in the answer for each
   candidate in the remote-candidates attribute in the offer.

9.2.3.  Procedures for Lite Implementations

   If the received offer contains the remote-candidates attribute for a
   media stream, the agent forms a candidate pair for each component of
   the media stream by:

   o  Setting the remote candidate equal to the offerer's default
      destination for that component (e.g., the contents of the m and c
      lines for RTP, and the a=rtcp attribute for RTCP).

   o  Setting the local candidate equal to the transport address for
      that same component in the a=remote-candidates attribute in the
      offer.

   It then places those candidates into the Valid list for the media
   stream.  The state of ICE processing for that media stream is set to
   Completed.

Petit-Huguenin & Keranen Expires January 5, 2015               [Page 19]
Internet-Draft              ICE SIP/SDP Usage                  July 2014

   Furthermore, if the agent believed it was controlling, but the offer
   contained the remote-candidates attribute, both agents believe they
   are controlling.  In this case, both would have sent updated offers
   around the same time.  However, the signaling protocol carrying the
   offer/answer exchanges will have resolved this glare condition, so
   that one agent is always the 'winner' by having its offer received
   before its peer has sent an offer.  The winner takes the role of
   controlled, so that the loser (the answerer under consideration in
   this section) MUST change its role to controlled.  Consequently, if
   the agent was going to send an updated offer since, based on the
   rules in section 8.2 of [ICE-BIS], it was controlling, it no longer
   needs to.

   Besides the potential role change, change in the Valid list, and
   state changes, the construction of the answer is performed
   identically to the construction of an offer as described in
   Section 9.1.3.

9.3.  Updating the Check and Valid Lists

9.3.1.  Procedures for Full Implementations

9.3.1.1.  ICE Restarts

   The agent MUST remember the highest-priority nominated pairs in the
   Valid list for each component of the media stream, called the
   previous selected pairs, prior to the restart.  The agent will
   continue to send media using these pairs, as described in
   Section 11.1.  Once these destinations are noted, the agent MUST
   flush the valid and check lists, and then recompute the check list
   and its states as described in section 6.3 of [ICE-BIS].

9.3.1.2.  New Media Stream

   If the offer/answer exchange added a new media stream, the agent MUST
   create a new check list for it (and an empty Valid list to start of
   course), as described in section 6.3 of [ICE-BIS].

9.3.1.3.  Removed Media Stream

   If the offer/answer exchange removed a media stream, or an answer
   rejected an offered media stream, an agent MUST flush the Valid list
   for that media stream.  It MUST terminate any STUN transactions in
   progress for that media stream.  An agent MUST remove the check list
   for that media stream and cancel any pending ordinary checks for it.

Petit-Huguenin & Keranen Expires January 5, 2015               [Page 20]
Internet-Draft              ICE SIP/SDP Usage                  July 2014

9.3.1.4.  ICE Continuing for Existing Media Stream

   The valid list is not affected by an updated offer/answer exchange
   unless ICE is restarting.

   If an agent is in the Running state for that media stream, the check
   list is updated (the check list is irrelevant if the state is
   completed).  To do that, the agent recomputes the check list using
   the procedures described in section 6.3 of [ICE-BIS].  If a pair on
   the new check list was also on the previous check list, and its state
   was Waiting, In-Progress, Succeeded, or Failed, its state is copied
   over.  Otherwise, its state is set to Frozen.

   If none of the check lists are active (meaning that the pairs in each
   check list are Frozen), the full-mode agent sets the first pair in
   the check list for the first media stream to Waiting, and then sets
   the state of all other pairs in that check list for the same
   component ID and with the same foundation to Waiting as well.

   Next, the agent goes through each check list, starting with the
   highest-priority pair.  If a pair has a state of Succeeded, and it
   has a component ID of 1, then all Frozen pairs in the same check list
   with the same foundation whose component IDs are not 1 have their
   state set to Waiting.  If, for a particular check list, there are
   pairs for each component of that media stream in the Succeeded state,
   the agent moves the state of all Frozen pairs for the first component
   of all other media streams (and thus in different check lists) with
   the same foundation to Waiting.

9.3.2.  Procedures for Lite Implementations

   If ICE is restarting for a media stream, the agent MUST start a new
   Valid list for that media stream.  It MUST remember the pairs in the
   previous Valid list for each component of the media stream, called
   the previous selected pairs, and continue to send media there as
   described in Section 11.1.  The state of ICE processing for each
   media stream MUST change to Running, and the state of ICE processing
   MUST change to Running.

10.  Keepalives

   The keepalives MUST be sent regardless of whether the media stream is
   currently inactive, sendonly, recvonly, or sendrecv, and regardless
   of the presence or value of the bandwidth attribute.  An agent can
   determine that its peer supports ICE by the presence of a=candidate
   attributes for each media session.

Petit-Huguenin & Keranen Expires January 5, 2015               [Page 21]
Internet-Draft              ICE SIP/SDP Usage                  July 2014

11.  Media Handling

11.1.  Sending Media

   Note that the selected pair for a component of a media stream may not
   equal the default pair for that same component from the most recent
   offer/answer exchange.  When this happens, the selected pair is used
   for media, not the default pair.  When ICE first completes, if the
   selected pairs aren't a match for the default pairs, the controlling
   agent sends an updated offer/answer exchange to remedy this
   disparity.  However, until that updated offer arrives, there will not
   be a match.  Furthermore, in very unusual cases, the default
   candidates in the updated offer/answer will not be a match.

11.1.1.  Procedures for All Implementations

   ICE has interactions with jitter buffer adaptation mechanisms.  An
   RTP stream can begin using one candidate, and switch to another one,
   though this happens rarely with ICE.  The newer candidate may result
   in RTP packets taking a different path through the network -- one
   with different delay characteristics.  As discussed below, agents are
   encouraged to re-adjust jitter buffers when there are changes in
   source or destination address of media packets.  Furthermore, many
   audio codecs use the marker bit to signal the beginning of a
   talkspurt, for the purposes of jitter buffer adaptation.  For such
   codecs, it is RECOMMENDED that the sender set the marker bit
   [RFC3550] when an agent switches transmission of media from one
   candidate pair to another.

11.2.  Receiving Media

   ICE implementations MUST be prepared to receive media on each
   component on any candidates provided for that component in the most
   recent offer/answer exchange (in the case of RTP, this would include
   both RTP and RTCP if candidates were provided for both).

   It is RECOMMENDED that, when an agent receives an RTP packet with a
   new source or destination IP address for a particular media stream,
   that the agent re-adjust its jitter buffers.

   RFC 3550 [RFC3550] describes an algorithm in Section 8.2 for
   detecting synchronization source (SSRC) collisions and loops.  These
   algorithms are based, in part, on seeing different source transport
   addresses with the same SSRC.  However, when ICE is used, such
   changes will sometimes occur as the media streams switch between
   candidates.  An agent will be able to determine that a media stream
   is from the same peer as a consequence of the STUN exchange that
   proceeds media transmission.  Thus, if there is a change in source

Petit-Huguenin & Keranen Expires January 5, 2015               [Page 22]
Internet-Draft              ICE SIP/SDP Usage                  July 2014

   transport address, but the media packets come from the same peer
   agent, this SHOULD NOT be treated as an SSRC collision.

12.  Usage with SIP

12.1.  Latency Guidelines

   ICE requires a series of STUN-based connectivity checks to take place
   between endpoints.  These checks start from the answerer on
   generation of its answer, and start from the offerer when it receives
   the answer.  These checks can take time to complete, and as such, the
   selection of messages to use with offers and answers can affect
   perceived user latency.  Two latency figures are of particular
   interest.  These are the post-pickup delay and the post-dial delay.
   The post-pickup delay refers to the time between when a user "answers
   the phone" and when any speech they utter can be delivered to the
   caller.  The post-dial delay refers to the time between when a user
   enters the destination address for the user and ringback begins as a
   consequence of having successfully started ringing the phone of the
   called party.

   Two cases can be considered -- one where the offer is present in the
   initial INVITE and one where it is in a response.

12.1.1.  Offer in INVITE

   To reduce post-dial delays, it is RECOMMENDED that the caller begin
   gathering candidates prior to actually sending its initial INVITE.
   This can be started upon user interface cues that a call is pending,
   such as activity on a keypad or the phone going off-hook.

   If an offer is received in an INVITE request, the answerer SHOULD
   begin to gather its candidates on receipt of the offer and then
   generate an answer in a provisional response once it has completed
   that process.  ICE requires that a provisional response with an SDP
   be transmitted reliably.  This can be done through the existing
   Provisional Response Acknowledgment (PRACK) mechanism [RFC3262] or
   through an optimization that is specific to ICE.  With this
   optimization, provisional responses containing an SDP answer that
   begins ICE processing for one or more media streams can be sent
   reliably without RFC 3262.  To do this, the agent retransmits the
   provisional response with the exponential backoff timers described in
   RFC 3262.  Retransmits MUST cease on receipt of a STUN Binding
   request for one of the media streams signaled in that SDP (because
   receipt of a Binding request indicates the offerer has received the
   answer) or on transmission of the answer in a 2xx response.  If the
   peer agent is lite, there will never be a STUN Binding request.  In
   such a case, the agent MUST cease retransmitting the 18x after

Petit-Huguenin & Keranen Expires January 5, 2015               [Page 23]
Internet-Draft              ICE SIP/SDP Usage                  July 2014

   sending it four times (ICE will actually work even if the peer never
   receives the 18x; however, experience has shown that sending it is
   important for middleboxes and firewall traversal).  If no Binding
   request is received prior to the last retransmit, the agent does not
   consider the session terminated.  Despite the fact that the
   provisional response will be delivered reliably, the rules for when
   an agent can send an updated offer or answer do not change from those
   specified in RFC 3262.  Specifically, if the INVITE contained an
   offer, the same answer appears in all of the 1xx and in the 2xx
   response to the INVITE.  Only after that 2xx has been sent can an
   updated offer/answer exchange occur.  This optimization SHOULD NOT be
   used if both agents support PRACK.  Note that the optimization is
   very specific to provisional response carrying answers that start ICE
   processing; it is not a general technique for 1xx reliability.

   Alternatively, an agent MAY delay sending an answer until the 200 OK;
   however, this results in a poor user experience and is NOT
   RECOMMENDED.

   Once the answer has been sent, the agent SHOULD begin its
   connectivity checks.  Once candidate pairs for each component of a
   media stream enter the valid list, the answerer can begin sending
   media on that media stream.

   However, prior to this point, any media that needs to be sent towards
   the caller (such as SIP early media [RFC3960]) MUST NOT be
   transmitted.  For this reason, implementations SHOULD delay alerting
   the called party until candidates for each component of each media
   stream have entered the valid list.  In the case of a PSTN gateway,
   this would mean that the setup message into the PSTN is delayed until
   this point.  Doing this increases the post-dial delay, but has the
   effect of eliminating 'ghost rings'.  Ghost rings are cases where the
   called party hears the phone ring, picks up, but hears nothing and
   cannot be heard.  This technique works without requiring support for,
   or usage of, preconditions [RFC3312], since it's a localized
   decision.  It also has the benefit of guaranteeing that not a single
   packet of media will get clipped, so that post-pickup delay is zero.
   If an agent chooses to delay local alerting in this way, it SHOULD
   generate a 180 response once alerting begins.

12.1.2.  Offer in Response

   In addition to uses where the offer is in an INVITE, and the answer
   is in the provisional and/or 200 OK response, ICE works with cases
   where the offer appears in the response.  In such cases, which are
   common in third party call control [RFC3725], ICE agents SHOULD
   generate their offers in a reliable provisional response (which MUST
   utilize RFC 3262), and not alert the user on receipt of the INVITE.

Petit-Huguenin & Keranen Expires January 5, 2015               [Page 24]
Internet-Draft              ICE SIP/SDP Usage                  July 2014

   The answer will arrive in a PRACK.  This allows for ICE processing to
   take place prior to alerting, so that there is no post-pickup delay,
   at the expense of increased call setup delays.  Once ICE completes,
   the callee can alert the user and then generate a 200 OK when they
   answer.  The 200 OK would contain no SDP, since the offer/answer
   exchange has completed.

   Alternatively, agents MAY place the offer in a 2xx instead (in which
   case the answer comes in the ACK).  When this happens, the callee
   will alert the user on receipt of the INVITE, and the ICE exchanges
   will take place only after the user answers.  This has the effect of
   reducing call setup delay, but can cause substantial post-pickup
   delays and media clipping.

12.2.  SIP Option Tags and Media Feature Tags

   [RFC5768] specifies a SIP option tag and media feature tag for usage
   with ICE.  ICE implementations using SIP SHOULD support this
   specification, which uses a feature tag in registrations to
   facilitate interoperability through signaling intermediaries.

12.3.  Interactions with Forking

   ICE interacts very well with forking.  Indeed, ICE fixes some of the
   problems associated with forking.  Without ICE, when a call forks and
   the caller receives multiple incoming media streams, it cannot
   determine which media stream corresponds to which callee.

   With ICE, this problem is resolved.  The connectivity checks which
   occur prior to transmission of media carry username fragments, which
   in turn are correlated to a specific callee.  Subsequent media
   packets that arrive on the same candidate pair as the connectivity
   check will be associated with that same callee.  Thus, the caller can
   perform this correlation as long as it has received an answer.

12.4.  Interactions with Preconditions

   Quality of Service (QoS) preconditions, which are defined in RFC 3312
   [RFC3312] and RFC 4032 [RFC4032], apply only to the transport
   addresses listed as the default targets for media in an offer/answer.
   If ICE changes the transport address where media is received, this
   change is reflected in an updated offer that changes the default
   destination for media to match ICE's selection.  As such, it appears
   like any other re-INVITE would, and is fully treated in RFCs 3312 and
   4032, which apply without regard to the fact that the destination for
   media is changing due to ICE negotiations occurring "in the
   background".

Petit-Huguenin & Keranen Expires January 5, 2015               [Page 25]
Internet-Draft              ICE SIP/SDP Usage                  July 2014

   Indeed, an agent SHOULD NOT indicate that QoS preconditions have been
   met until the checks have completed and selected the candidate pairs
   to be used for media.

   ICE also has (purposeful) interactions with connectivity
   preconditions [RFC5898].  Those interactions are described there.
   Note that the procedures described in Section 12.1 describe their own
   type of "preconditions", albeit with less functionality than those
   provided by the explicit preconditions in [RFC5898].

12.5.  Interactions with Third Party Call Control

   ICE works with Flows I, III, and IV as described in [RFC3725].  Flow
   I works without the controller supporting or being aware of ICE.
   Flow IV will work as long as the controller passes along the ICE
   attributes without alteration.  Flow II is fundamentally incompatible
   with ICE; each agent will believe itself to be the answerer and thus
   never generate a re-INVITE.

   The flows for continued operation, as described in Section 7 of RFC
   3725, require additional behavior of ICE implementations to support.
   In particular, if an agent receives a mid-dialog re-INVITE that
   contains no offer, it MUST restart ICE for each media stream and go
   through the process of gathering new candidates.  Furthermore, that
   list of candidates SHOULD include the ones currently being used for
   media.

13.  Relationship with ANAT

   RFC 4091 [RFC4091], the Alternative Network Address Types (ANAT)
   Semantics for the SDP grouping framework, and RFC 4092 [RFC4092], its
   usage with SIP, define a mechanism for indicating that an agent can
   support both IPv4 and IPv6 for a media stream, and it does so by
   including two m lines, one for v4 and one for v6.  This is similar to
   ICE, which allows for an agent to indicate multiple transport
   addresses using the candidate attribute.  However, ANAT relies on
   static selection to pick between choices, rather than a dynamic
   connectivity check used by ICE.

   This specification deprecates RFC 4091 and RFC 4092.  Instead, agents
   wishing to support dual-stack will utilize ICE.

14.  Setting Ta and RTO for RTP Media Streams

   During the gathering phase of ICE (section 4.1.1 [ICE-BIS]) and while
   ICE is performing connectivity checks (section 7 [ICE-BIS]), an agent
   sends STUN and TURN transactions.  These transactions are paced at a
   rate of one every Ta milliseconds, and utilize a specific RTO.  This

Petit-Huguenin & Keranen Expires January 5, 2015               [Page 26]
Internet-Draft              ICE SIP/SDP Usage                  July 2014

   section describes how the values of Ta and RTO are computed with a
   real-time media stream (such as RTP).  When ICE is used for a stream
   with a known maximum bandwidth, the following computation MAY be
   followed to rate-control the ICE exchanges.

   The values of RTO and Ta change during the lifetime of ICE
   processing.  One set of values applies during the gathering phase,
   and the other, for connectivity checks.

   The value of Ta SHOULD be configurable, and SHOULD have a default of:

   For each media stream i:
    Ta_i = (stun_packet_size / rtp_packet_size) * rtp_ptime

                           1
     Ta = MAX (20ms, ------------------- )
                           k
                         ----
                         \        1
                          >    ------
                         /       Ta_i
                         ----
                          i=1

   where k is the number of media streams.  During the gathering phase,
   Ta is computed based on the number of media streams the agent has
   indicated in its offer or answer, and the RTP packet size and RTP
   ptime are those of the most preferred codec for each media stream.
   Once an offer and answer have been exchanged, the agent recomputes Ta
   to pace the connectivity checks.  In that case, the value of Ta is
   based on the number of media streams that will actually be used in
   the session, and the RTP packet size and RTP ptime are those of the
   most preferred codec with which the agent will send.

   In addition, the retransmission timer for the STUN transactions, RTO,
   defined in [RFC5389], SHOULD be configurable and during the gathering
   phase, SHOULD have a default of:

   RTO = MAX (100ms, Ta * (number of pairs))

   where the number of pairs refers to the number of pairs of candidates
   with STUN or TURN servers.

   For connectivity checks, RTO SHOULD be configurable and SHOULD have a
   default of:

   RTO = MAX (100ms, Ta*N * (Num-Waiting + Num-In-Progress))

Petit-Huguenin & Keranen Expires January 5, 2015               [Page 27]
Internet-Draft              ICE SIP/SDP Usage                  July 2014

   where Num-Waiting is the number of checks in the check list in the
   Waiting state, and Num-In-Progress is the number of checks in the In-
   Progress state.  Note that the RTO will be different for each
   transaction as the number of checks in the Waiting and In-Progress
   states change.

   These formulas are aimed at causing STUN transactions to be paced at
   the same rate as media.  This ensures that ICE will work properly
   under the same network conditions needed to support the media as
   well.  See section B.1 of [ICE-BIS] for additional discussion and
   motivations.  Because of this pacing, it will take a certain amount
   of time to obtain all of the server reflexive and relayed candidates.
   Implementations should be aware of the time required to do this, and
   if the application requires a time budget, limit the number of
   candidates that are gathered.

   The formulas result in a behavior whereby an agent will send its
   first packet for every single connectivity check before performing a
   retransmit.  This can be seen in the formulas for the RTO (which
   represents the retransmit interval).  Those formulas scale with N,
   the number of checks to be performed.  As a result of this, ICE
   maintains a nicely constant rate, but becomes more sensitive to
   packet loss.  The loss of the first single packet for any
   connectivity check is likely to cause that pair to take a long time
   to be validated, and instead, a lower-priority check (but one for
   which there was no packet loss) is much more likely to complete
   first.  This results in ICE performing sub-optimally, choosing lower-
   priority pairs over higher-priority pairs.  Implementors should be
   aware of this consequence, but still should utilize the timer values
   described here.

15.  Security Considerations

15.1.  Attacks on the Offer/Answer Exchanges

   An attacker that can modify or disrupt the offer/answer exchanges
   themselves can readily launch a variety of attacks with ICE.  They
   could direct media to a target of a DoS attack, they could insert
   themselves into the media stream, and so on.  These are similar to
   the general security considerations for offer/answer exchanges, and
   the security considerations in RFC 3264 [RFC3264] apply.  These
   require techniques for message integrity and encryption for offers
   and answers, which are satisfied by the SIPS mechanism [RFC3261] when
   SIP is used.  As such, the usage of SIPS with ICE is RECOMMENDED.

Petit-Huguenin & Keranen Expires January 5, 2015               [Page 28]
Internet-Draft              ICE SIP/SDP Usage                  July 2014

15.2.  Insider Attacks

   In addition to attacks where the attacker is a third party trying to
   insert fake offers, answers, or stun messages, there are several
   attacks possible with ICE when the attacker is an authenticated and
   valid participant in the ICE exchange.

15.2.1.  The Voice Hammer Attack

   The voice hammer attack is an amplification attack.  In this attack,
   the attacker initiates sessions to other agents, and maliciously
   includes the IP address and port of a DoS target as the destination
   for media traffic signaled in the SDP.  This causes substantial
   amplification; a single offer/answer exchange can create a continuing
   flood of media packets, possibly at high rates (consider video
   sources).  This attack is not specific to ICE, but ICE can help
   provide remediation.

   Specifically, if ICE is used, the agent receiving the malicious SDP
   will first perform connectivity checks to the target of media before
   sending media there.  If this target is a third-party host, the
   checks will not succeed, and media is never sent.

   Unfortunately, ICE doesn't help if its not used, in which case an
   attacker could simply send the offer without the ICE parameters.
   However, in environments where the set of clients is known, and is
   limited to ones that support ICE, the server can reject any offers or
   answers that don't indicate ICE support.

15.2.2.  Interactions with Application Layer Gateways and SIP

   Application Layer Gateways (ALGs) are functions present in a NAT
   device that inspect the contents of packets and modify them, in order
   to facilitate NAT traversal for application protocols.  Session
   Border Controllers (SBCs) are close cousins of ALGs, but are less
   transparent since they actually exist as application layer SIP
   intermediaries.  ICE has interactions with SBCs and ALGs.

   If an ALG is SIP aware but not ICE aware, ICE will work through it as
   long as the ALG correctly modifies the SDP.  A correct ALG
   implementation behaves as follows:

   o  The ALG does not modify the m and c lines or the rtcp attribute if
      they contain external addresses.

   o  If the m and c lines contain internal addresses, the modification
      depends on the state of the ALG:

Petit-Huguenin & Keranen Expires January 5, 2015               [Page 29]
Internet-Draft              ICE SIP/SDP Usage                  July 2014

         If the ALG already has a binding established that maps an
         external port to an internal IP address and port matching the
         values in the m and c lines or rtcp attribute, the ALG uses
         that binding instead of creating a new one.

         If the ALG does not already have a binding, it creates a new
         one and modifies the SDP, rewriting the m and c lines and rtcp
         attribute.

   Unfortunately, many ALGs are known to work poorly in these corner
   cases.  ICE does not try to work around broken ALGs, as this is
   outside the scope of its functionality.  ICE can help diagnose these
   conditions, which often show up as a mismatch between the set of
   candidates and the m and c lines and rtcp attributes.  The ice-
   mismatch attribute is used for this purpose.

   ICE works best through ALGs when the signaling is run over TLS.  This
   prevents the ALG from manipulating the SDP messages and interfering
   with ICE operation.  Implementations that are expected to be deployed
   behind ALGs SHOULD provide for TLS transport of the SDP.

   If an SBC is SIP aware but not ICE aware, the result depends on the
   behavior of the SBC.  If it is acting as a proper Back-to-Back User
   Agent (B2BUA), the SBC will remove any SDP attributes it doesn't
   understand, including the ICE attributes.  Consequently, the call
   will appear to both endpoints as if the other side doesn't support
   ICE.  This will result in ICE being disabled, and media flowing
   through the SBC, if the SBC has requested it.  If, however, the SBC
   passes the ICE attributes without modification, yet modifies the
   default destination for media (contained in the m and c lines and
   rtcp attribute), this will be detected as an ICE mismatch, and ICE
   processing is aborted for the call.  It is outside of the scope of
   ICE for it to act as a tool for "working around" SBCs.  If one is
   present, ICE will not be used and the SBC techniques take precedence.

16.  IANA Considerations

16.1.  SDP Attributes

   Original ICE specification defined seven new SDP attributes per the
   procedures of Section 8.2.4 of [RFC4566].  The registration
   information is reproduced here.

16.1.1.  candidate Attribute

   Contact Name:  Jonathan Rosenberg, jdrosen@jdrosen.net.

   Attribute Name:  candidate

Petit-Huguenin & Keranen Expires January 5, 2015               [Page 30]
Internet-Draft              ICE SIP/SDP Usage                  July 2014

   Long Form:  candidate

   Type of Attribute:  media-level

   Charset Considerations:  The attribute is not subject to the charset
      attribute.

   Purpose:  This attribute is used with Interactive Connectivity
      Establishment (ICE), and provides one of many possible candidate
      addresses for communication.  These addresses are validated with
      an end-to-end connectivity check using Session Traversal Utilities
      for NAT (STUN).

   Appropriate Values:  See Section 8 of RFC XXXX.

16.1.2.  remote-candidates Attribute

   Contact Name:  Jonathan Rosenberg, jdrosen@jdrosen.net.

   Attribute Name:  remote-candidates

   Long Form:  remote-candidates

   Type of Attribute:  media-level

   Charset Considerations:  The attribute is not subject to the charset
      attribute.

   Purpose:  This attribute is used with Interactive Connectivity
      Establishment (ICE), and provides the identity of the remote
      candidates that the offerer wishes the answerer to use in its
      answer.

   Appropriate Values:  See Section 8 of RFC XXXX.

16.1.3.  ice-lite Attribute

   Contact Name:  Jonathan Rosenberg, jdrosen@jdrosen.net.

   Attribute Name:  ice-lite

   Long Form:  ice-lite

   Type of Attribute:  session-level

   Charset Considerations:  The attribute is not subject to the charset
      attribute.

Petit-Huguenin & Keranen Expires January 5, 2015               [Page 31]
Internet-Draft              ICE SIP/SDP Usage                  July 2014

   Purpose:  This attribute is used with Interactive Connectivity
      Establishment (ICE), and indicates that an agent has the minimum
      functionality required to support ICE inter-operation with a peer
      that has a full implementation.

   Appropriate Values:  See Section 8 of RFC XXXX.

16.1.4.  ice-mismatch Attribute

   Contact Name:  Jonathan Rosenberg, jdrosen@jdrosen.net.

   Attribute Name:  ice-mismatch

   Long Form:  ice-mismatch

   Type of Attribute:  session-level

   Charset Considerations:  The attribute is not subject to the charset
      attribute.

   Purpose:  This attribute is used with Interactive Connectivity
      Establishment (ICE), and indicates that an agent is ICE capable,
      but did not proceed with ICE due to a mismatch of candidates with
      the default destination for media signaled in the SDP.

   Appropriate Values:  See Section 8 of RFC XXXX.

16.1.5.  ice-pwd Attribute

   Contact Name:  Jonathan Rosenberg, jdrosen@jdrosen.net.

   Attribute Name:  ice-pwd

   Long Form:  ice-pwd

   Type of Attribute:  session- or media-level

   Charset Considerations:  The attribute is not subject to the charset
      attribute.

   Purpose:  This attribute is used with Interactive Connectivity
      Establishment (ICE), and provides the password used to protect
      STUN connectivity checks.

   Appropriate Values:  See Section 8 of RFC XXXX.

Petit-Huguenin & Keranen Expires January 5, 2015               [Page 32]
Internet-Draft              ICE SIP/SDP Usage                  July 2014

16.1.6.  ice-ufrag Attribute

   Contact Name:  Jonathan Rosenberg, jdrosen@jdrosen.net.

   Attribute Name:  ice-ufrag

   Long Form:  ice-ufrag

   Type of Attribute:  session- or media-level

   Charset Considerations:  The attribute is not subject to the charset
      attribute.

   Purpose:  This attribute is used with Interactive Connectivity
      Establishment (ICE), and provides the fragments used to construct
      the username in STUN connectivity checks.

   Appropriate Values:  See Section 8 of RFC XXXX.

16.1.7.  ice-pacing Attribute

   Contact Name:  Jonathan Rosenberg, jdrosen@jdrosen.net.

   Attribute Name:  ice-pacing

   Long Form:  ice-pacing

   Type of Attribute:  session-level

   Charset Considerations:  The attribute is not subject to the charset
      attribute.

   Purpose:  This attribute is used with Interactive Connectivity
      Establishment (ICE) to indicate desired connectivity check pacing
      values.

   Appropriate Values:  See Section 8 of RFC XXXX.

16.1.8.  ice-options Attribute

   Contact Name:  Jonathan Rosenberg, jdrosen@jdrosen.net.

   Attribute Name:  ice-options

   Long Form:  ice-options

   Type of Attribute:  session- or media-level

Petit-Huguenin & Keranen Expires January 5, 2015               [Page 33]
Internet-Draft              ICE SIP/SDP Usage                  July 2014

   Charset Considerations:  The attribute is not subject to the charset
      attribute.

   Purpose:  This attribute is used with Interactive Connectivity
      Establishment (ICE), and indicates the ICE options or extensions
      used by the agent.

   Appropriate Values:  See Section 8 of RFC XXXX.

16.2.  Interactive Connectivity Establishment (ICE) Options Registry

   IANA maintains a registry for ice-options identifiers under the
   Specification Required policy as defined in "Guidelines for Writing
   an IANA Considerations Section in RFCs" [RFC5226].

   ICE options are of unlimited length according to the syntax in
   Section 8.6; however, they are RECOMMENDED to be no longer than 20
   characters.  This is to reduce message sizes and allow for efficient
   parsing.

   In RFC 5245 ICE options could only be defined at the session level.
   ICE options can now also be defined at the media level.  This can be
   used when aggregating between different ICE agents in the same
   endpoint, but future options may require to be defined at the media-
   level.  To ensure compatibility with legacy implementation, the
   media-level ICE options MUST be aggregated into a session-level ICE
   option.  Because aggregation rules depend on the specifics of each
   option, all new ICE options MUST also define in their specification
   how the media-level ICE option values are aggregated to generate the
   value of the session-level ICE option.

   The only ICE option defined at the time of publication is "rtp+ecn"
   [RFC6679].  The aggregation rule for this ICE options is that if all
   aggregated media using ICE contain a media-level "rtp+ecn" ICE option
   then an "rtp+ecn" ICE option MUST be inserted at the session-level.
   If one of the media does not contain the option, then it MUST NOT be
   inserted at the session-level.

   A registration request MUST include the following information:

   o  The ICE option identifier to be registered

   o  Name, Email, and Address of a contact person for the registration

   o  Organization or individuals having the change control

   o  Short description of the ICE extension to which the option relates

Petit-Huguenin & Keranen Expires January 5, 2015               [Page 34]
Internet-Draft              ICE SIP/SDP Usage                  July 2014

   o  Reference(s) to the specification defining the ICE option and the
      related extensions

17.  Acknowledgments

   A large part of the text in this document was taken from RFC 5245,
   authored by Jonathan Rosenberg.

   Some of the text in this document was taken from RFC 6336, authored
   by Magnus Westerlund and Colin Perkins.

18.  References

18.1.  Normative References

   [RFC2119]  Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
              Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997.

   [RFC3261]  Rosenberg, J., Schulzrinne, H., Camarillo, G., Johnston,
              A., Peterson, J., Sparks, R., Handley, M., and E.
              Schooler, "SIP: Session Initiation Protocol", RFC 3261,
              June 2002.

   [RFC3262]  Rosenberg, J. and H. Schulzrinne, "Reliability of
              Provisional Responses in Session Initiation Protocol
              (SIP)", RFC 3262, June 2002.

   [RFC3264]  Rosenberg, J. and H. Schulzrinne, "An Offer/Answer Model
              with Session Description Protocol (SDP)", RFC 3264, June
              2002.

   [RFC3312]  Camarillo, G., Marshall, W., and J. Rosenberg,
              "Integration of Resource Management and Session Initiation
              Protocol (SIP)", RFC 3312, October 2002.

   [RFC3550]  Schulzrinne, H., Casner, S., Frederick, R., and V.
              Jacobson, "RTP: A Transport Protocol for Real-Time
              Applications", STD 64, RFC 3550, July 2003.

   [RFC3556]  Casner, S., "Session Description Protocol (SDP) Bandwidth
              Modifiers for RTP Control Protocol (RTCP) Bandwidth", RFC
              3556, July 2003.

   [RFC3605]  Huitema, C., "Real Time Control Protocol (RTCP) attribute
              in Session Description Protocol (SDP)", RFC 3605, October
              2003.

Petit-Huguenin & Keranen Expires January 5, 2015               [Page 35]
Internet-Draft              ICE SIP/SDP Usage                  July 2014

   [RFC4032]  Camarillo, G. and P. Kyzivat, "Update to the Session
              Initiation Protocol (SIP) Preconditions Framework", RFC
              4032, March 2005.

   [RFC4091]  Camarillo, G. and J. Rosenberg, "The Alternative Network
              Address Types (ANAT) Semantics for the Session Description
              Protocol (SDP) Grouping Framework", RFC 4091, June 2005.

   [RFC4092]  Camarillo, G. and J. Rosenberg, "Usage of the Session
              Description Protocol (SDP) Alternative Network Address
              Types (ANAT) Semantics in the Session Initiation Protocol
              (SIP)", RFC 4092, June 2005.

   [RFC4566]  Handley, M., Jacobson, V., and C. Perkins, "SDP: Session
              Description Protocol", RFC 4566, July 2006.

   [RFC5226]  Narten, T. and H. Alvestrand, "Guidelines for Writing an
              IANA Considerations Section in RFCs", BCP 26, RFC 5226,
              May 2008.

   [RFC5234]  Crocker, D. and P. Overell, "Augmented BNF for Syntax
              Specifications: ABNF", STD 68, RFC 5234, January 2008.

   [RFC5389]  Rosenberg, J., Mahy, R., Matthews, P., and D. Wing,
              "Session Traversal Utilities for NAT (STUN)", RFC 5389,
              October 2008.

   [RFC5768]  Rosenberg, J., "Indicating Support for Interactive
              Connectivity Establishment (ICE) in the Session Initiation
              Protocol (SIP)", RFC 5768, April 2010.

   [RFC6679]  Westerlund, M., Johansson, I., Perkins, C., O'Hanlon, P.,
              and K. Carlberg, "Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN)
              for RTP over UDP", RFC 6679, August 2012.

   [ICE-BIS]  Keranen, A. and J. Rosenberg, "Interactive Connectivity
              Establishment (ICE): A Protocol for Network Address
              Translator (NAT) Traversal for Offer/Answer Protocols",
              draft-keranen-mmusic-rfc5245bis-02 (work in progress),
              July 2014.

18.2.  Informative References

   [RFC3725]  Rosenberg, J., Peterson, J., Schulzrinne, H., and G.
              Camarillo, "Best Current Practices for Third Party Call
              Control (3pcc) in the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)",
              BCP 85, RFC 3725, April 2004.

Petit-Huguenin & Keranen Expires January 5, 2015               [Page 36]
Internet-Draft              ICE SIP/SDP Usage                  July 2014

   [RFC3960]  Camarillo, G. and H. Schulzrinne, "Early Media and Ringing
              Tone Generation in the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)",
              RFC 3960, December 2004.

   [RFC4340]  Kohler, E., Handley, M., and S. Floyd, "Datagram
              Congestion Control Protocol (DCCP)", RFC 4340, March 2006.

   [RFC5626]  Jennings, C., Mahy, R., and F. Audet, "Managing Client-
              Initiated Connections in the Session Initiation Protocol
              (SIP)", RFC 5626, October 2009.

   [RFC5898]  Andreasen, F., Camarillo, G., Oran, D., and D. Wing,
              "Connectivity Preconditions for Session Description
              Protocol (SDP) Media Streams", RFC 5898, July 2010.

Appendix A.  Examples

   For the example shown in Section 13 of [ICE-BIS] the resulting offer
   (message 5) encoded in SDP looks like:

   v=0
   o=jdoe 2890844526 2890842807 IN IP4 $L-PRIV-1.IP
   s=
   c=IN IP4 $NAT-PUB-1.IP
   t=0 0
   a=ice-pwd:asd88fgpdd777uzjYhagZg
   a=ice-ufrag:8hhY
   m=audio $NAT-PUB-1.PORT RTP/AVP 0
   b=RS:0
   b=RR:0
   a=rtpmap:0 PCMU/8000
   a=candidate:1 1 UDP 2130706431 $L-PRIV-1.IP $L-PRIV-1.PORT typ host
   a=candidate:2 1 UDP 1694498815 $NAT-PUB-1.IP $NAT-PUB-1.PORT typ
    srflx raddr $L-PRIV-1.IP rport $L-PRIV-1.PORT

   The offer, with the variables replaced with their values, will look
   like (lines folded for clarity):

Petit-Huguenin & Keranen Expires January 5, 2015               [Page 37]
Internet-Draft              ICE SIP/SDP Usage                  July 2014

   v=0
   o=jdoe 2890844526 2890842807 IN IP4 10.0.1.1
   s=
   c=IN IP4 192.0.2.3
   t=0 0
   a=ice-pwd:asd88fgpdd777uzjYhagZg
   a=ice-ufrag:8hhY
   m=audio 45664 RTP/AVP 0
   b=RS:0
   b=RR:0
   a=rtpmap:0 PCMU/8000
   a=candidate:1 1 UDP 2130706431 10.0.1.1 8998 typ host
   a=candidate:2 1 UDP 1694498815 192.0.2.3 45664 typ srflx raddr
    10.0.1.1 rport 8998

   The resulting answer looks like:

   v=0
   o=bob 2808844564 2808844564 IN IP4 $R-PUB-1.IP
   s=
   c=IN IP4 $R-PUB-1.IP
   t=0 0
   a=ice-pwd:YH75Fviy6338Vbrhrlp8Yh
   a=ice-ufrag:9uB6
   m=audio $R-PUB-1.PORT RTP/AVP 0
   b=RS:0
   b=RR:0
   a=rtpmap:0 PCMU/8000
   a=candidate:1 1 UDP 2130706431 $R-PUB-1.IP $R-PUB-1.PORT typ host

   With the variables filled in:

   v=0
   o=bob 2808844564 2808844564 IN IP4 192.0.2.1
   s=
   c=IN IP4 192.0.2.1
   t=0 0
   a=ice-pwd:YH75Fviy6338Vbrhrlp8Yh
   a=ice-ufrag:9uB6
   m=audio 3478 RTP/AVP 0
   b=RS:0
   b=RR:0
   a=rtpmap:0 PCMU/8000
   a=candidate:1 1 UDP 2130706431 192.0.2.1 3478 typ host

Petit-Huguenin & Keranen Expires January 5, 2015               [Page 38]
Internet-Draft              ICE SIP/SDP Usage                  July 2014

Appendix B.  The remote-candidates Attribute

   The a=remote-candidates attribute exists to eliminate a race
   condition between the updated offer and the response to the STUN
   Binding request that moved a candidate into the Valid list.  This
   race condition is shown in Figure 1.  On receipt of message 4, agent
   L adds a candidate pair to the valid list.  If there was only a
   single media stream with a single component, agent L could now send
   an updated offer.  However, the check from agent R has not yet
   generated a response, and agent R receives the updated offer (message
   7) before getting the response (message 9).  Thus, it does not yet
   know that this particular pair is valid.  To eliminate this
   condition, the actual candidates at R that were selected by the
   offerer (the remote candidates) are included in the offer itself, and
   the answerer delays its answer until those pairs validate.

          Agent A               Network               Agent B
             |(1) Offer            |                     |
             |------------------------------------------>|
             |(2) Answer           |                     |
             |<------------------------------------------|
             |(3) STUN Req.        |                     |
             |------------------------------------------>|
             |(4) STUN Res.        |                     |
             |<------------------------------------------|
             |(5) STUN Req.        |                     |
             |<------------------------------------------|
             |(6) STUN Res.        |                     |
             |-------------------->|                     |
             |                     |Lost                 |
             |(7) Offer            |                     |
             |------------------------------------------>|
             |(8) STUN Req.        |                     |
             |<------------------------------------------|
             |(9) STUN Res.        |                     |
             |------------------------------------------>|
             |(10) Answer          |                     |
             |<------------------------------------------|

                       Figure 1: Race Condition Flow

Appendix C.  Why Is the Conflict Resolution Mechanism Needed?

   When ICE runs between two peers, one agent acts as controlled, and
   the other as controlling.  Rules are defined as a function of
   implementation type and offerer/answerer to determine who is
   controlling and who is controlled.  However, the specification

Petit-Huguenin & Keranen Expires January 5, 2015               [Page 39]
Internet-Draft              ICE SIP/SDP Usage                  July 2014

   mentions that, in some cases, both sides might believe they are
   controlling, or both sides might believe they are controlled.  How
   can this happen?

   The condition when both agents believe they are controlled shows up
   in third party call control cases.  Consider the following flow:

             A         Controller          B
             |(1) INV()     |              |
             |<-------------|              |
             |(2) 200(SDP1) |              |
             |------------->|              |
             |              |(3) INV()     |
             |              |------------->|
             |              |(4) 200(SDP2) |
             |              |<-------------|
             |(5) ACK(SDP2) |              |
             |<-------------|              |
             |              |(6) ACK(SDP1) |
             |              |------------->|

                       Figure 2: Role Conflict Flow

   This flow is a variation on flow III of RFC 3725 [RFC3725].  In fact,
   it works better than flow III since it produces fewer messages.  In
   this flow, the controller sends an offerless INVITE to agent A, which
   responds with its offer, SDP1.  The agent then sends an offerless
   INVITE to agent B, which it responds to with its offer, SDP2.  The
   controller then uses the offer from each agent to generate the
   answers.  When this flow is used, ICE will run between agents A and
   B, but both will believe they are in the controlling role.  With the
   role conflict resolution procedures, this flow will function properly
   when ICE is used.

   At this time, there are no documented flows that can result in the
   case where both agents believe they are controlled.  However, the
   conflict resolution procedures allow for this case, should a flow
   arise that would fit into this category.

Appendix D.  Why Send an Updated Offer?

   Section 11.1 describes rules for sending media.  Both agents can send
   media once ICE checks complete, without waiting for an updated offer.
   Indeed, the only purpose of the updated offer is to "correct" the SDP
   so that the default destination for media matches where media is
   being sent based on ICE procedures (which will be the highest-
   priority nominated candidate pair).

Petit-Huguenin & Keranen Expires January 5, 2015               [Page 40]
Internet-Draft              ICE SIP/SDP Usage                  July 2014

   This begs the question -- why is the updated offer/answer exchange
   needed at all?  Indeed, in a pure offer/answer environment, it would
   not be.  The offerer and answerer will agree on the candidates to use
   through ICE, and then can begin using them.  As far as the agents
   themselves are concerned, the updated offer/answer provides no new
   information.  However, in practice, numerous components along the
   signaling path look at the SDP information.  These include entities
   performing off-path QoS reservations, NAT traversal components such
   as ALGs and Session Border Controllers (SBCs), and diagnostic tools
   that passively monitor the network.  For these tools to continue to
   function without change, the core property of SDP -- that the
   existing, pre-ICE definitions of the addresses used for media -- the
   m and c lines and the rtcp attribute -- must be retained.  For this
   reason, an updated offer must be sent.

Authors' Addresses

   Marc Petit-Huguenin
   Jive Communications
   1275 West 1600 North, Suite 100
   Orem, UT  84057
   USA

   Email: marcph@getjive.com

   Ari Keranen
   Ericsson
   Jorvas  02420
   Finland

   Email: ari.keranen@ericsson.com

Petit-Huguenin & Keranen Expires January 5, 2015               [Page 41]