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Problem

A request or publication relying on a newly presented token can fail before AUTH settles. Reconnect replay published the replacement session before registering retained tokens.

Approach

Queue replayed tokens before publishing the session. Shared Rust and JS admission waits for unanswered nonempty tokens only when the known union does not cover the path, and logs each wait once. Keep covered requests live through renewal. Clarify scope ordering and renewal in the lite draft and user documentation.

The replay task takes only the registration queued for the session it observed. One queued for a newer session stays in place for its next pass, so a replacement published between the task's snapshot and its take never loses the token. Registrations for sessions it has moved past, queued or in flight and still unanswered, stay on that draining session until it ends, since requests there may still wait on the answer.

Every auth wait ends with the lifetime of the request it holds:

  • Publication enforcement applies queued withdrawals before judging a wait, in Rust and JS, so a broadcast withdrawn during the wait never closes the session.
  • A Rust Gate under an announced route stops waiting once the route is withdrawn, and the request is judged against the union as it stands, so routing can recover.
  • Rust subscribers check the request's demand before or alongside the gate wait. JS AuthSession.ready races until, the request's own lifetime, which it creates only once the request has to wait. Subscribes pass a shared abandoned(demand) helper, also used by the IETF serve loop, and fetches pass their group's demand. Demand that returns before the wait acts on its end keeps the request waiting, as in the serving loops.
  • A draining session's token lives in a task that releases it, and its session handle, as soon as that session closes.

Exercise the admission polling invariant across feature configurations. Retarget the existing never-send-FETCH mutation after admission gating and verify that it still breaks its drill.

Impact

  • Public API: none.
  • Wire: lite-07-wip draft text only; no Auth IDs, request fields, or extra bytes. The draft now says the unauthorized close applies only to a broadcast still announced once the wait ends.
  • Internal JS: AuthSession.ready (not exported) takes { signal, until } and resolves false once until settles first.

Alternatives

Per-request auth identifiers and acceptor-side waiting were rejected by the maintainer. This implements the settled presenter-side wait without a timer or stats counter.

Decisions

  • Codex P1 on the replay take (comment 4320027077): ✅ keep a newer session's queued registration and drop stale ones (recommended); re-register after publication (the old behavior, which reopens the race). Rust-only: JS has no reconnect token replay.
  • Codex P1 on draining sessions (4320218822): ✅ keep unanswered registrations per session in the draining set until it ends (recommended); keep only answered tokens on draining sessions (the old behavior). Fits this PR's scope, so no new quest.
  • Codex P2 4320218825 with CodeRabbit 4320239651: ✅ apply queued withdrawals, then judge each waiting path in announcement order (recommended); re-check liveness only at the moment of reporting.
  • Codex P2 4320218827: ✅ check abandonment before the auth wait in lite and race it in IETF, with the JS wait taking the request's demand (recommended); leave abandonment to the serving loop after admission.
  • Design check after three rounds of "auth wait ignores lifecycle" findings (4320742719, 4320742724, 4320817434): ✅ each wait primitive owns its request's lifetime: the Rust Gate observes its own route, Rust callers race demand through the existing poll_unwanted, and JS ready takes one lazy lifetime promise (recommended); a single cross-language primitive that every caller hands an abstract lifetime, rejected because Rust gate users already poll demand uniformly and a callback parameter would cut against the API rules.
  • Draining release (4320742724): ✅ one task per draining entry that ends when its session closes (recommended); add a draining-closed branch to every select in the replay task.

Validation

At b1194108a045c85873deb5354b5fab94832eb3b0 (merged with main):

  • just check passed, including 7,643 native tests (31 skipped) and all 1,038 net-feature tests. just drafts check passed at ce8302d1220b03a47eef1e926d3fc83e94c692fa, and the draft has not changed since.
  • Each regression test fails with its fix reverted:
    • Rust: a_stale_snapshot_keeps_the_newer_sessions_registration, a_draining_session_keeps_an_unanswered_replay (untaken and in-flight paths), a_closed_draining_session_releases_its_token, a_broadcast_withdrawn_while_its_token_waits_is_not_refused (lite-07, moqt-17, moqt-22), an_unused_track_stops_waiting_for_auth, an_abandoned_subscribe_stops_waiting_for_auth, a_withdrawn_route_ends_the_wait, and a_withdrawn_route_ends_a_subscribe_waiting_for_auth.
    • JS: a broadcast withdrawn while its token waits is not refused, a subscribe abandoned while its token waits never reaches the wire (all three protocols), a fetch abandoned while its token waits never reaches the wire, and the microtask sweeps a subscribe that regains a reader while its token waits keeps waiting (all three protocols) and a fetch that regains a caller while its token waits keeps waiting, which fail at gaps 6 to 10 without the demand recheck.
  • Native interop was not rerun after the first round; nothing since changes wire bytes.

At checkpoint 4a643aadd71db35b204fac9239b963454eb03085:

  • just drafts check passed.
  • Native interop passed with publishers rust,python,go,cpp and subscribers rust,python,go,cpp,js-native-node,js-native-bun,c,gst, with timeout 30. All 32 publisher/subscriber combinations, authorization refusal, CLI FETCH, finite tails, and DROP checks passed.
  • The FETCH sensitivity drill passed: baseline succeeds and the applied mutation fails with the expected unanswered request.

The original refusal was reproduced on unchanged Rust and JS sources. The focused Rust auth/reconnect suite passed 156 tests and the benchmark sweep completed 18 rows at earlier checkpoint d608998e24878cdb44b059892a2705d2183f2279. These benchmark observations have no performance acceptance threshold.

Follow-ups

The browser-inclusive interop gate was not run locally because pinned Chromium 1248 cannot load libglib-2.0.so.0. No maintainer decisions are open for this change.

(written by GPT-6.1-Sol, iterated by Claude Opus 5.5)

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kixelated and others added 4 commits October 19, 2026 12:46
Queue retained tokens before publishing replacement sessions, then hold uncovered requests until presented tokens settle. Pin scope-before-AUTH_OK and union renewal, and clarify the lite draft without new wire bytes.

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Exercise the core admission gate directly so the regression also compiles and runs without the optional async wrapper.

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Keep the missing-FETCH mutation after the new authorization admission check so it still applies and proves the recovery drill detects Unanswered requests.

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Authorization now waits for unresolved non-empty tokens when a request is not covered. Rust and JavaScript subscriber and publisher paths receive AuthSession and handle cancellation. Grant renewal preserves live access. Connection replacement replays authentication tokens before publishing the new session. Tests, benchmarks, and documentation cover these changes.

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Comment thread rs/moq-tokio/src/connection/auth.rs Resolved
A replacement published between the replay task's snapshot and its take
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session consumers could already see. Leave a newer registration queued
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*self.opening.lock().unwrap() = Some((connects, opening));

P1 Badge Keep pending registrations on draining sessions

If another replacement connects before this queued handle.add future is taken or answered, assigning the new entry here drops the previous future and withdraws that token from the session that just became the draining predecessor. Requests already opened on that predecessor can still be waiting for the token, so they settle against the narrower grant and fail during an otherwise valid migration. Retain pending registrations per session until each session ends or its answer is owned by the replay task.


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if let Some(gate) = &mut self.pending {
std::task::ready!(gate.poll_ready(waiter));
let gate = self.pending.take().expect("pending publication");
if !handle.within_grant(Direction::Publish, gate.path.as_str()) {
return Poll::Ready(Some(gate.path));

P2 Badge Ignore publications withdrawn while authorization waits

When an uncovered broadcast is withdrawn while this gate waits for a token, its End event remains queued behind the pending gate. Once the token settles without covering the path, this branch returns the path immediately and closes the session as unauthorized even though the broadcast is no longer published; process queued withdrawal events or recheck current liveness before reporting the violation. A route withdrawal must not itself make the session fatal.

AGENTS.md reference: rs/moq-net/AGENTS.md:L7-L7


fn poll(&mut self, waiter: &kio::Waiter) -> Poll<()> {
// A finished track only waits for its FIN to be acknowledged: nothing is left to revoke.
ready!(self.gate.poll_ready(waiter));

P2 Badge Check abandoned track demand before parking on auth

When a nonempty token remains unanswered and the path is not already covered, this returns Pending before the Info state's poll_unused check. If the reader leaves or the origin fails over during that wait, subsequent demand wakeups park here again, retaining the request, task, and track until the token eventually answers, which it may never do. Handle abandonment before the admission gate so the parked task can release its handles.

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Comment thread js/net/src/auth_session.ts Resolved
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A migration dropped a replayed token still unanswered on the session it
left, withdrawing it from requests there that waited on its answer. The
replay task now keeps every unanswered registration, queued or in
flight, on its draining session until that session ends.

A broadcast withdrawn while its publication waited on a token closed the
session once the token settled without covering it. Rust and JS now
apply queued withdrawals before judging the wait.

A subscription abandoned while it waited on a token held its task and
track until the token answered. The lite and IETF subscribers in Rust
and JS now give up the wait once nobody wants the track.

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Resolve the lite track abandonment conflict onto main's poll_unwanted,
used by the new auth-wait checks in both subscribers.

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Comment thread rs/moq-net/src/ietf/subscriber.rs Resolved
Each auth wait now ends when the request it holds ends:

- A Gate under an announced route stops waiting once the route is
  withdrawn, and the request is judged against the union as it stands.
- JS AuthSession.ready races a lazily created lifetime promise (`until`)
  instead of taking a track Demand. Subscribes pass the shared
  `abandoned(demand)` helper, now also used by the IETF serve loop, and
  fetches pass their group's demand, so an abandoned fetch no longer
  parks on a token.
- A draining session's token lives in a task that releases it, and its
  session handle, as soon as that session closes.

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Comment thread rs/moq-net/tests/integration/auth.rs Resolved
Demand that returns between an auth wait observing its request's
abandonment and acting on it now keeps the request waiting, matching
the serving loops: subscribes recheck the track's demand and fetches
the group's. The unanswered-token publication test now also names the
refused broadcast.

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