We have a variety of outstanding issues regarding transport and ICE.
This email tries to summarize the approach adopted in -07 for these
issues.

* ICE-TCP is currently MTI and thus a normative dependency.  However,
  it's unclear when ICE-TCP will be finished.
* The draft needs to specify framing and a timeout for TCP or other
  stream-oriented protocols that do not provide such notifications
  themselves.
* We have the AIMD proposal in an appendix,
* The authors promised to merge [App]Attach and [App]AttachLite into
  [App]Attach, but have not done so.
* Feedback about various related issues from WGLC.

To reconcile these issues, the following changes have been made.

* New text has been inserted to clarify that new ICE transport
  protocols and extensions (such as ICE-TCP) can be used within RELOAD
  by defining new codepoints.

* References to ICE-TCP have been removed from the specification.

* "Reliability for Unreliable Links" is renamed "Simple Reliability
  (SR)".

* The header from SR is now used for TCP as well.  It wastes a few
  bytes, but allows the sender to receive ACKs from the receiver,
  required to time RTT and determine when the link should be regarded
  as dead.

* ICE Transports are now labeled Overlay Link protocols, as they
  specify not only transport but also framing, etc., eg  DTLS/UDP with SR

* *AttachLite are removed.  In their place, new overlay link protocols
  are defined.  DTLS/UDP with SR no ICE and TLS/TCP with FS no ICE.
  Text is added that defines how lite and full ICE implementations
  interoperate. (text below)

* The AIMD proposal is deleted in its entirety.  In its place is a
  reference to future definitions of semi-reliable datagram-oriented
  protocols over UDP such as SCTP and DCCP currently under discussion
  in TSV.  Preference is recommended for these, as any would be
  superior to all current transport options (high-performance without
  head-of-line blocking).
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