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A Go implementation of ICE (Interactive Connectivity Establishment), the NAT-traversal protocol WebRTC relies on to find a viable path between two peers. It's a building block inside the pion/webrtc stack rather than a tool you'd reach for standalone — useful if you're writing a Go WebRTC/P2P stack and want ICE without cgo bindings to libwebrtc.
Solid engineering hygiene: fuzz testing, CodeQL, codecov, golangci-lint, and goreportcard all wired into CI, which matters for a protocol implementation parsing untrusted network input. Supports both UDP and TCP candidates with its own mux (udp_mux_multi.go, tcp_mux.go) plus mDNS candidates, covering more of the ICE spec than most reimplementations bother with. Pure Go, no cgo, so it cross-compiles cleanly and doesn't drag in a libwebrtc build.
The README is almost entirely badges and Discord/Bluesky links — zero usage example or API overview, so you're left reading agent.go or the examples directory to understand how to actually drive it. It's already on major version v5, meaning the public API has broken repeatedly; pin your version and expect more churn. It's tightly coupled to the Pion ecosystem's release cadence and roadmap (tracked in a separate pion/webrtc issue), so if you adopt it standalone you're dependent on decisions made for a different repo's needs.
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