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Completes quest/m1/subscribe-ranges/frame-bounds.md (deleted here).

Summary

track::Subscriber filtered whole groups, so a range starting at group 4 frame 5, or ending at group 6 frame 3, handed local readers (moq-ffi, moq-mux, in-process apps) every cached frame of those groups. Now:

  • Window::frames(sequence) returns the frames a group's covering ranges name: the start frame where an absolute start falls inside it, the exclusive end where an absolute end does, whole groups otherwise. Overlapping ranges in one group read the hull.
  • The cursor positions every group it hands out (Cursor::deliver, which replaces with_expiry on the arrival, re-offer, peeked, and ordered paths), using skip_to + end_at. Positioning happens when the group is taken, not when it is peeked, and the peek fast paths sync first, so a reserved group is bounded by the ranges in force at handout even after a Control::update (review finding).
  • After time anchors merged, Span::covers reads a span up to an unsettled time end's cap, the groups it reads meanwhile, so a time range covering a group whole widens another range's frame bounds there.
  • The datagram path judges each datagram's sequence, timestamp, and Object ID against one range at a time (Window::admits_datagram), rather than the subscription's lowest start, so a mid-group start behind an earlier disjoint range no longer leaks its group's datagram, a mid-group end applies too, and two ranges can't each pass one condition (review finding).
  • A group stream two ranges split with a hole reads the hull, since a group is handed out once as one run of frames, as the lite wire sends it. Datagrams honor the hole.

Regression tests: a_range_reads_only_its_frames (start at 4/5, end at 6/3, read through recv_group and ordered(), with a wider subscriber widening the aggregate), a_group_missing_its_asked_head_lags, frames_bound_only_the_groups_an_anchor_falls_inside, a_datagram_is_judged_against_one_range_at_a_time, a_peeked_group_is_bounded_by_the_ranges_at_handout, and an extra case in a_mid_group_start_drops_the_start_groups_datagram. The first two fail without the fix.

Public API and wire impact

No signature changes and no wire changes. Behavior: a local subscriber's groups now start and stop at its range's frame bounds. The lite and IETF publishers already positioned served groups themselves, so what they send is unchanged.

Decisions

Settled by the maintainer on 2026-10-20, each on the recommended option:

  1. A group missing the head a range asks for is handed out positioned, not skipped by the model.
    • ✅ Hand it out positioned: reading the missing head returns Error::Lagged. The lite publisher's position_group still skips and DROPs such groups at the wire.
    • Skip it in the model as a miss, as the quest first said ("stays a miss, as position_group does"). Rejected: it breaks route takeover recovery (a_takeover_serves_the_open_group_head_to_later_readers, where a reader's Lagged read gets the head from another copy) and fetch-filled heads (fetch_fills_the_head_of_a_live_group).
  2. Groups relayed from moq-transport (group.wire().is_some()) are handed out whole.
    • ✅ Whole. The IETF publisher puts Object IDs into Position.frame (ServeRange::apply), and a relayed group's IDs may not be its frame ordinals (Wire::sparse can turn on mid-group), so positioning by ordinal would cut frames the IETF publisher needs, for example on a Next Object join over sparse IDs. This matches the IETF publisher's own wire().is_none() rule.
    • Map Object IDs to ordinals in the model. Deferred: it waits on frames that may not have arrived yet, and no local reader needs mid-group bounds on a relayed track.
  3. The lite publisher keeps position_group.
    • ✅ Keep it. It still has to detect a missing head (decision 1) and position relayed groups (decision 2), so removing it would not simplify anything. Running it after the model's positioning changes nothing.
    • Drop it and rely on the model, which the quest allowed "if that is simpler". It is not.

Fetch as a range

quest/m1/subscribe-ranges/fetch-range.md (merged) requires this quest for head fills: a one-range subscription for a cached live group missing its range's head. Decision 1 is what makes that possible, since the group is still handed out for a fill to complete, where skipping it would turn the fill into a miss. The one tension: today only fetch_group requests a head fill, and a subscription reading that group gets Error::Lagged at the missing head (unless a route copy holds it), so fetch-range has to make the one-range read request the fill rather than let Lagged reach the caller. This PR records that in fetch-range's Plan, drops its Required link to this deleted quest, and updates the matching line in dynamic.md.

JS

@moq/net's Subscription only has group bounds (groups.start/groups.end), with no frame positions, so it can't express this case and there is nothing to mirror. Frame-precise ranges there belong to JS ranges.

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  • Merged origin/main (time anchors, moq-dev/moq#6074); conflicts in track.rs's datagram path (main's time-aware admits_datagram kept, the per-group frame check replaces mid_group) and the epic README.
  • cargo test -p moq-net --all-features (2344 lib tests plus integration) and cargo clippy -p moq-net --all-features --lib --tests -D warnings pass after the merge and the review fixes.
  • just check stops early here on bench/relay.test.py (the gh module), which times out inside it and passes on its own; unrelated to this diff, so CI is the full gate.

Follow-ups

  • Optional: map Object IDs to ordinals in the model so local readers of relayed sparse tracks get mid-group bounds too (decision 2). I'd only do it once a consumer needs it.

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kixelated and others added 4 commits October 20, 2026 17:55
The cursor filtered whole groups, so a range starting or ending inside a
cached group handed out every frame of it. Each handed-out group is now
positioned to the frames its covering ranges name, on the arrival,
re-offer, and ordered paths, and the datagram path judges object IDs
against the same per-group bounds.

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Comment on lines +501 to +504
hull = Some(match hull {
None => (start, end),
Some((low, high)) => (start.min(low), end.zip(high).map(|(end, high)| end.max(high))),
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P1 Badge Preserve holes between same-group frame ranges

When two requested ranges cover disjoint portions of the same group, collapsing them to their hull returns frames that neither range requested. For example, ranges [group 4 frame 1, frame 2) and [group 4 frame 5, frame 6) produce bounds 1..6, leaking frames 2 through 4 through both arrival and ordered reads. Preserve the disjoint intervals or filter individual frame reads instead of widening them to a hull.

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Declining. A group is handed out once, as one run of frames, so a reader can't skip frames 2 through 4 inside it without a per-frame filter on group::Consumer that nothing else needs. The wire has the same shape: a lite group stream is one contiguous run, so a relay serving these two ranges sends the hull too, and the model matches what a remote subscriber would get. Two ranges splitting one group with a hole is also not a decodable request for media, where frames depend on earlier ones. The frames doc now says why it reads the hull. Datagrams, which carry their own Object ID, are now judged per range (see the other thread), so they do honor the hole.

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let (start, end) = self.filter.window.frames(sequence);
let object = datagram.wire.as_ref().and_then(|wire| wire.object_id).unwrap_or(0);
let framed = object >= start && end.is_none_or(|end| object < end);
if sequence >= self.floor() && admits && framed {

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P2 Badge Evaluate each datagram against one complete range

With mixed time and absolute ranges, admits and framed can be satisfied by different ranges, allowing a datagram that no individual range covers. For example, an absolute range starting at object 1 admits group 5 but excludes object 0, while a time-started range whose resolved span includes group 5 contributes frame 0 even if the datagram's own timestamp precedes that range; object 0 then passes both aggregate checks. Evaluate sequence, timestamp, and object ID together per range before taking their union.

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Fixed: Window::admits_datagram now takes the Object ID and checks the sequence, timestamp, and Object ID against one range at a time, so different ranges can no longer each pass one condition. a_datagram_is_judged_against_one_range_at_a_time covers your example (an absolute start at 5/1 plus a time range starting after the datagram's timestamp) and an untimed group split by two ranges.

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Subscription windows now calculate frame bounds for each group. Subscriber delivery applies those bounds to non-relayed groups and datagrams, while relayed groups remain whole for object-ID filtering. Tests cover frame-limited reads, unavailable starting frames, and datagram filtering. The frame-bounds documentation and its README link were removed.

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With overlapping time-based and frame-precise ranges, a subscriber may receive a datagram that none of its ranges covers. Evaluate the checks per range before merging.

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Sequence, timestamp, and Object ID were checked against the window as a
whole, so two ranges could each pass one condition and admit a datagram
neither covers.

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self.advance_arrival(peeked.group.sequence, peeked.index);
peeked.group.cache_refresh();
return Poll::Ready(Ok(Some(self.with_expiry(peeked.group))));
return Poll::Ready(Ok(Some(self.deliver(peeked.group))));

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P2 Badge Sync frame bounds before delivering a reserved group

When a nested/resuming reader has reserved this group and another task calls Control::update with new frame bounds before the group is consumed, this fast path bypasses sync() and deliver consults the old filter.window. The group is therefore positioned using the previous range and can return frames excluded by the current subscription. Sync and revalidate the reserved group before handing it out.

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Fixed in 64e789f: both peek fast paths (arrival and ordered) now sync() before handing the reserved group out, so it is still the reserved group but positioned by the ranges in force at the take. a_peeked_group_is_bounded_by_the_ranges_at_handout peeks group 4, replaces the ranges through Control::update to start at 4/5, and checks the taken group starts at frame 5 in both orders; it fails without the fix.

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A Control update between a peek and the take left the cursor's window
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if !group.relayed() {
let (start, end) = self.filter.window.frames(group.sequence);

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P1 Badge Filter relayed groups instead of bypassing frame bounds

When a group arrived through IETF/moq-transport, relayed() is true even for ordinary sequential Object IDs, so this branch skips all frame positioning. If another subscriber widened the relay's aggregate request, a frame-bounded local reader such as moq-ffi, moq-mux, or an in-process consumer therefore receives the entire cached group; unlike a downstream wire publisher, group::Consumer performs no later Object-ID filtering. Apply Object-ID-aware bounds, limiting the passthrough exception to the mid-group case it actually requires.

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Declining: handing relayed moq-transport groups out whole is decision 2 in the PR description, which the maintainer accepted. A relayed group's Object IDs are only known to match its frame ordinals until Wire::sparse turns on, which can happen mid-group after handout, so positioning by ordinal could cut frames the IETF publisher still needs (it filters by Object ID itself, under the same wire().is_none() rule). Positioning by Object ID would need the model to map IDs to ordinals for frames that may not have arrived yet. The local-reader gap you describe is real and is listed as the follow-up, to do once a consumer needs mid-group bounds on a relayed track.

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Ready to merge.

  • Merged origin/main after moq-dev/moq#6074: Span::covers reads an unsettled time end up to its cap.
  • Review fixes: a datagram is judged against one range at a time (sequence, timestamp, and Object ID together), and a peeked group is bounded by the ranges in force when it is taken. Each has a regression test.
  • Declined: preserving holes between two ranges inside one group stream (it reads the hull, as the lite wire sends it; datagrams honor the hole), and positioning relayed moq-transport groups (decision 2, accepted by the maintainer).
  • The three decisions in the description were settled by the maintainer on 2026-10-20.

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