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6.4. <ins> Naturally, an address that is already exposed to the Internet does not need to be protected by mDNS, as it can be trivially observed by the web server or remote endpoint.  However, determining this ahead of time is not straightforward; while the fact that an IPv4 address is private can sometimes be inferred by its value, e.g., whether it is an RFC1918 address, the reverse is not necessarily true.  IPv6 addresses present their own complications, e.g., private IPv6 addresses as a result of NAT64 RFC6146. Instead, the determination of whether an address is public can be reliably made as part of the ICE gathering process, namely, if the query to the STUN RFC5389 server returns the same value as the local address.  This can be done for both IPv4 and IPv6 local addresses, provided that the application has configured both IPv4 and IPv6 STUN servers.  If this situation occurs, i.e., STUN returns the same IP address value for an address that has already been communicated as an mDNS candidate during the current ICE gathering phase, the ICE agent MUST NOT eliminate the candidate as redundant and MUST send the IP address as a server-reflexive candidate.  This allows the ICE agent to send mDNS candidates immediately (i.e., without waiting for STUN), even if the associated addresses may not be private. Once an address has been identified as public, the ICE agent MAY cache this information and omit mDNS protection for that address in future ICE gathering phases. 6.5. As noted in IPHandling, private IPv4 addresses are especially problematic because of their unbounded lifetime.  However, the RFC4941 IPv6 addresses recommended for WebRTC have inherent privacy protections, namely a short lifetime and the lack of any stateful information.  Accordingly, implementations MAY choose to not conceal RFC4941 addresses with mDNS names as a tradeoff for improved peer-to- peer connectivity. 6.6. </ins> As noted in IPHandling, privacy may be breached if a web application running in two browsing contexts can determine whether it is running on the same device.  While the approach in this document prevents the

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text: I think this is good to go, will plan to land at EOD.
Does it obfuscate, conceal, or obscure local IP addresses? My vote is for conceal.
Conceal/concealment sgtm.
As noted in , we don't need to use the same term in every case, but the terms should have the same meaning. conceal and hide are fairly synonymous, but conceal and obfuscate have slightly different meanings.
This section is largely normative, so it might make more sense to put some parts from it immediately after Principle, namely the various adjustments to the technique that need to be considered (TURN, IPv6, stats) Things where we merely provide discussion (e.g., session monitoring) rather than normative guidance could remain in the privacy section.
Due to their different sensitivity and lifetime.
If we add this indication, do we also need to clarify the use case for lite ICE agents?
What did you have in mind?
{{#gathering}} starts with "For any host candidate gathered by an ICE agent as part of {{RFC8445}} section 5.1.1," it seems the place we need to revise to resolve this issue. I was thinking of allowing ICE lite implementation to skip the mDNS wrapping, since lite agents only use host candidates (8445, section 2.5). The lite implementation is however not required restricted to ICE agents that always have public IPs from my reading of that section, but rather an alternative to simplify the implementation when possible. So I am still not sure if it makes sense to say lite ICE can be exempted from wrapping; or instead indicating mDNS wrapping can be skipped if host candidates are equivalent to srflx candidates, and automatically the intended use of lite ICE satisfies this condition.
Right, the public IPs exception probably covers this. also indicates that this is really for web browsers, which are not allowed to implement ICE Lite.
Started writing this up today, but realized it's not totally clear how this should work. The idea would be to use STUN to figure out if an IP is public or not, but... Should we wait to hand out the mDNS candidate until we determine if the IP is private (i.e., STUN finishes)? Should we not hand out the mDNS candidate if we get a srflx candidate that shows the IP is not private?