PSA: Perfect Negotiation support in M87

[Henrik Boström]

Perfect Negotiation is now supported in Chrome M87!

This is a pattern of exchanging offer and answer SDP that an application can make use of to abstract away when and how to do signaling. By attaching code that exercises this pattern when "onnegotiationneeded" is fired, the negotiation code can be written once in isolation from the rest of the application code, and whenever the application then modifies the RTCPeerConnection in such a way that renegotiation is needed, the negotiation code will be exercised automatically, and the changes will be made visible at both the local and remote endpoints.

Perfect Negotiation supports both endpoints sending offers. The pattern intelligently handles the situation of "glare" (both peers making an offer at the same time, causing a collision) by having one peer be "polite" and the other peer be "impolite". In the event of an offer collision, the polite peer rolls back its offer in order to process the impolite peer's incoming offer. Once back to the stable signaling state, the polite peer's "onnegotiationneeded" fires again and a follow-up O/A is completed.

DEMO: Perfect Negotiation demo jsfiddle

("Start" creates two local streams, "Swap" alternates which one of them is sent.)

There are no new APIs added for Perfect Negotiation; what is fixed in M87 are bugs and races in "onnegotiationneeeded" and other events. (If you run the demo in M86, clicking "Start" followed by "Swap on both (glare)" can result in negotiation never completing.)

For more information about Perfect Negotiation, see...

• The spec's Perfect Negotiation Example.
• Firefox's blogpost Perfect negotiation in WebRTC (its comments on Chrome's "onnegotiationneeded" only working 95% of the time is no longer accurate).

Perfect Negotiation is only supported in Unified Plan, not Plan B.

[Tsahi Levent-Levi]

Henrik,

Thanks for this!

I think it would make Perfect Sense to place the Perfect Negotiation demo as a Perfect Sample in the github repo instead of an unnamed jsfiddle that no one will know how to get back to next week (pun intended)

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[Henrik Boström]

I agree and I filed https://github.com/webrtc/samples/issues/1352 as a follow-up, but me personally I'm sadly short on time at the moment, so I don't know the ETA on the Perfect Sample.

[Henrik Boström]

We now have a working samples page thanks to external contributions from SCG82 turning the jsfiddle into a samples page:

https://webrtc.github.io/samples/src/content/peerconnection/perfect-negotiation/

Reminder that version M87 or later is needed for it to always work. (In M86 it usually works butt sometimes a race condition makes it stop negotiating automatically and then the video stops.)

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