#ice-candidate

ICE Candidate is a NAT Traversal and P2P Gaming term for a possible network address and port pair that an ICE agent can test while trying to establish connectivity. It helps people and agents name the signal, source, and safe next step without pretending an automation, campaign, DNS record, RFC, or network path did more than the evidence shows. Source context: RFC 6598 shared address space; RFC 8445 ICE; RFC 1918 private address space.

“The ICE Candidate was one possible doorbell; the game tried it before blaming the whole apartment building.”