Interactive Connectivity Establishment (ICE): A Protocol for Network Address Translator (NAT) Traversal
draft-ietf-ice-rfc5245bis-14

• Status
• IESG evaluation record
• IESG writeups
• Email expansions
• History

• Versions
• 00
• 01
• 02
• 03
• 04
• 05
• 06
• 07
• 08
• 09
• 10
• 11
• 12
• 13
• 14
• 15
• 16
• 17
• 18
• 19
• 20

ICE                                                           A. Keranen
Internet-Draft                                               C. Holmberg
Obsoletes: 5245 (if approved)                                   Ericsson
Intended status: Standards Track                            J. Rosenberg
Expires: May 3, 2018                                         jdrosen.net
                                                        October 30, 2017

  Interactive Connectivity Establishment (ICE): A Protocol for Network
                   Address Translator (NAT) Traversal
                      draft-ietf-ice-rfc5245bis-14

Abstract

   This document describes a protocol for Network Address Translator
   (NAT) traversal for UDP-based communication.  This protocol is called
   Interactive Connectivity Establishment (ICE).  ICE makes use of the
   Session Traversal Utilities for NAT (STUN) protocol and its
   extension, Traversal Using Relay NAT (TURN).

   This document obsoletes RFC 5245.

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 May 3, 2018.

Copyright Notice

   Copyright (c) 2017 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

Keranen, et al.            Expires May 3, 2018                  [Page 1]
Internet-Draft                     ICE                      October 2017

   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
   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  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   5
   2.  Overview of ICE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   6
     2.1.  Gathering Candidates  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
     2.2.  Connectivity Checks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  10
     2.3.  Nominating Candidate Pairs And Concluding ICE . . . . . .  12
     2.4.  ICE Restart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  12
     2.5.  Lite Implementations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  13
   3.  ICE Usage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  13
   4.  Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  13
   5.  ICE Candidate Gathering and Exchange  . . . . . . . . . . . .  17
     5.1.  Full Implementation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  18
       5.1.1.  Gathering Candidates  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  18
         5.1.1.1.  Host Candidates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  18
         5.1.1.2.  Server Reflexive and Relayed Candidates . . . . .  20
         5.1.1.3.  Computing Foundations . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  21
         5.1.1.4.  Keeping Candidates Alive  . . . . . . . . . . . .  21
       5.1.2.  Prioritizing Candidates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  22
         5.1.2.1.  Recommended Formula . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  22
         5.1.2.2.  Guidelines for Choosing Type and Local
                   Preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  23
       5.1.3.  Eliminating Redundant Candidates  . . . . . . . . . .  23
     5.2.  Lite Implementation Procedures  . . . . . . . . . . . . .  23
     5.3.  Exchanging Candidate Information  . . . . . . . . . . . .  25
     5.4.  ICE Mismatch  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  26