RFC 8445: Interactive Connectivity Establishment (ICE): A Protocol for Network Address Translator (NAT) Traversal

Publisher

IETF / RFC Editor

URL

https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8445

Published

2018-07-01

Updated

unknown

Accessed

2026-09-30

HTTP status

200

License

IETF Trust legal provisions; short excerpts permitted with attribution

Source notes citing this source

• RFC 8445 defines lite ICE agents as using only host candidates and not generating connectivity checks or running state machines, while still responding to connectivity checks; RFC 8445 obsoletes RFC 5245, which Microsoft's pages still cite. in context

Cite this source record

APA

WarmTransfer. (2018, July 1). RFC 8445: Interactive Connectivity Establishment (ICE): A Protocol for Network Address Translator (NAT) Traversal. WarmTransfer. https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/sources/rfc-8445-ice-b

BibTeX

@misc{warmtransfer-rfc-8445-ice-b,
  title  = {RFC 8445: Interactive Connectivity Establishment (ICE): A Protocol for Network Address Translator (NAT) Traversal},
  author = {{WarmTransfer}},
  year   = {2018},
  url    = {https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/sources/rfc-8445-ice-b},
  note   = {IETF / RFC Editor, accessed 2026-09-30}
}