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The GLib ICE implementation
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Libnice is an implementation of the IETF's draft Interactice
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Connectivity Establishment standard (ICE). It provides GLib-based library,
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libnice and GStreamer elements.
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ICE is useful for applications that want to establish peer-to-peer UDP
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data streams. It automates the process of traversing NATs and provides
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security against some attacks.
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Existing standards that use ICE include Session Initiation Protocol
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(SIP) and XMPP Jingle.
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