Re: ICE freezing and Bandwidth Estimation

Hi,

I still fail to see how this is related to removing freezing. Sure, you can avoid freezing by using a separate PC for each stream, or to mandate BUNDLE, but why would it have to be removed?

Regards,

Christer

From: Silvia Pfeiffer <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com<mailto:silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com>>
Date: Thursday 24 May 2018 at 22:59
To: Bernard Aboba <Bernard.Aboba@microsoft.com<mailto:Bernard.Aboba@microsoft.com>>
Cc: "pthatcher@google.com<mailto:pthatcher@google.com>" <pthatcher@google.com<mailto:pthatcher@google.com>>, Harald Alvestrand <harald@alvestrand.no<mailto:harald@alvestrand.no>>, "public-webrtc@w3.org<mailto:public-webrtc@w3.org>" <public-webrtc@w3.org<mailto:public-webrtc@w3.org>>
Subject: Re: ICE freezing and Bandwidth Estimation
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On Thu., 24 May 2018, 11:14 am Bernard Aboba, <Bernard.Aboba@microsoft.com<mailto:Bernard.Aboba@microsoft.com>> wrote:
On May 23, 2018, at 16:49, Peter Thatcher <pthatcher@google.com<mailto:pthatcher@google.com>> wrote:
>
> I'm not saying anyone would do it, because it's kind of madness.  But it's a theoretically-possible madness.
>
> Here's a simple proof:  we know that unbundled m-lines can have transports connected to different hosts (with different DTLS certs, etc).  And those hosts can be browsers, and those browsers would be different PeerConnections.
>
> The congestion control might not work well, but ICE will.

[BA] In a small conference use case, it is common for a browser to have multiple PeerConnections, each to a different mesh participant.  Since many conferences are in practice small (less than 4 participants), this is quite a practical scenario.

An expeditious way to establish such a mesh conference is to send an Offer that can be responded to by multiple mesh participants (e.g. broadcast the Offer to a Room, and have other participants respond to the Offerer) so that the conference can get started in a single RTT.  Requirements:

a. Support for parallel forking.  This is what lead to the IceGather/IceTransport separation in ORTC.
b. Need to be able to construct multiple DtlsTransports from the same local certificate.
c. Need to restrict aggregate outgoing bandwidth for all mesh connections.

What's the advantage of this over sending multiple offers in parallel in JavaScript (asynch)? In my opinion this is needlessly complicating things - you need to manage the connection with each endpoint separately anyway.

Just my 2c worth...

Cheers,
Silvia.