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quest: measure route-health stalls and propose the health contract - #7096
This reproduces the stall the route-health line needs and measures it. It records the health contract the maintainer settled on 2026-11-02 in the line's quests, then deletes the design quest.
New fixtures in rs/moq-net/tests/integration/route_health.rs run on the same-epoch diamond P -> O -> M1/M2 -> E with mock time (about 0.6s together):
silent_kill_loses_what_detection_outlasts kills M1 without a close. It sweeps how long E takes to notice against the reader's max_delay, and counts the whole groups E never reads.
max_delay
detection
groups lost
2s
10s (default idle timeout)
7 (5..=11)
4s
10s
5 (5..=9)
4s
6s
1
2s
4s
1
2s
3s
0
2s
0.5s (what a standby could reach)
0
A silent kill costs about detection - max_delay of media. A standby that detects within the budget loses nothing.
a_payload_stall_with_live_sessions_is_never_recovered has M1 stop delivering payload for 30s while every session stays up. It covers three cases: no upstream stream credit, no downstream credit, and group headers arriving without their frames. In each case E reads nothing, gets no error, and never changes route, while W reads all 300 frames through M2. In the headers-only case, E's largest() keeps pace with W's while every group fails as too old. The fixture asserts that each failure is Error::Old, or the Stream(Old) reset M1 sends. So comparing two routes' largest positions finds nothing wrong.
Lowering the idle timeout would shrink the first case, but nothing at the transport level recovers the second. The line continues.
Quest changes:
design.md is deleted with quest rm. Its decisions now live in the quests that implement them.
Line README.md: the Goal now keeps a track on the working route instead of returning it to the preferred route. A new 2026-11-02 decision block records the evidence, exploration, and standby rules. The 2026-10-13 auto-return bullet is replaced by the reversal, with its date. The design gate bullet now records that the stall was reproduced. Remaining validation and P2P cases test that the track does not fail back while the working route delivers.
meta.md: the field rides on the existing SUBSCRIBE. Group headers carry the mode (option A), metadata FRAMEs keep timestamp and size with no bytes, and promotion is an update on the same subscription. The uncontested aggregation proposal is folded in. Metadata-only demand stays live upstream as a meta: true subscription. When a relay's last payload reader leaves, it demotes its upstream subscription instead of releasing it. The Wire line now names the settled framing.
selection.md: the standby is the next-best candidate, pinned to its own session rather than routed through the front. Only payload demand creates one. Nothing in selection returns a track to a higher-ranked route.
recovery.md: the switch rule (lag past the reader's max_delay, or 2s), what the rule measures before the active's first frame, exploration on the same budget with doubling, what happens when every candidate is quiet, no auto-return, and tests for each. It also flips the measured fixtures into resumes, and adds these counterexamples to its tests: quiet publisher, receiver backpressure, stale or replayed reports, and epoch change.
The design quest no longer appears under Required in README.md, meta.md, or selection.md.
Decisions
Settled by the maintainer in a grill interview on 2026-11-02.
Stall evidence rule. The standby is watched with Subscription.meta: true on the existing SUBSCRIBE. "SUBSCRIBE_META" was shorthand, not a new message, so the 2026-10-13 shape is kept. When should the track switch?
The active's lag behind the standby grows past its own healthy baseline by one frame interval, while the reader demands.
Undelivered media the standby reported gets older than a fraction of the reader's max_delay.
✅ The active's delivered media timestamp lags the standby's reported timestamp by more than the reader's max_delay, while the reader demands. A reader with no max_delay uses a fixed 2s.
Reason: the reader's own budget is the loss it already accepts. A standby that is normally a little faster never overrides application priority, and no per-route baseline or fraction constant is needed. Never compare largest() values, and never count source silence or a reader that stopped reading.
This reverses the 2026-10-31 pick of the baseline rule in the /quest-complete comment. The 2026-11-02 interview is newer, so it wins.
Metadata framing on the wire.
✅ (A) Each group stream marks its own mode in its header, so a stream opened before a mode update is read under the mode it was opened in. Metadata FRAMEs keep the timestamp and declared size and carry no bytes. Promotion to payload is an update on the same subscription.
(B) The mode lives only on the subscription, and the receiver tracks which streams were opened before each update.
Reason: B races updates against already-open streams.
Exploration. The standby slot moves to the next eligible candidate when neither active nor standby shows progress for the reader's max_delay, doubling the wait per move. What should a reader without max_delay use?
Fall back to the publisher's max age, and do nothing when that is unbounded.
Never explore without max_delay.
✅ The same fixed 2s default as the switch rule.
Reason: one constant drives both the switch and exploration.
Requalification of a demoted preferred route.
Payload trials at group boundaries with uncapped doubling backoff.
Payload trials with capped doubling backoff.
✅ Never auto-return. The track stays on the working route until that route fails.
This reverses the 2026-10-13 line decision ("Automatically return to the preferred route after useful media delivery demonstrates recovery"). The README and recovery.md record the reversal with its date.
Standby choice.
✅ The next-best route. Exploration bounds the cost of shared-upstream failures.
The candidate whose hop list shares the fewest hops with the active.
The aggregation proposal was not contested and is folded into meta.md and selection.md as written.
Choices made without asking
The brief gave no reason for decisions 1 and 4. The recorded reasons are the trade-offs from the rejected options: the reader's budget for 1, and for 4 the overlap, oscillation, and backoff schedule that trials need in order to trade a working route for one that just failed.
recovery.md defines the reader's budget at a relay as the aggregated subscription's: the largest downstream max_delay, which the aggregate already carries. It leaves one question open for that quest. When one aggregated reader has no max_delay, the aggregate has none either and drops to 2s, which may be shorter than another reader's budget.
Exploration keeps two details from the uncontested proposal: it runs only while demand is outstanding, and real progress resets the doubling.
The fixtures assert today's stalls, so recovery.md flips them rather than adding new ones.
silent_kill leaves out the rest of the killed group (group 4). Whether E keeps reading it depends on whether O's copy went idle before the resume, not on the detection delay. See follow-ups.
Review follow-ups, each derived from the settled rules:
Before the active delivers its first frame, the switch rule measures it from the standby-reported timestamp of the first frame the reader still needs. Promoting immediately would race every fresh subscription. Waiting would never catch a route that is silent from the start.
With every candidate quiet, the standby slot keeps cycling at the doubling wait and fails nothing: silence is not failure, and the track stays on the active. The doubling is uncapped, as decision 3 records it. A cap would turn the decaying cost into a constant one.
Metadata-only demand stays live upstream as a meta: true subscription. The Goal already said relays forward it.
Made eight helpers in route_change.rspub(super) so the new module reuses them instead of copying them.
Merged main again, to 64ffd7e409, in this round. An earlier merge of main moved route_health.rs to main's kio::clock and #[kio::test] (from moq-dev/moq#7027).
No production code, wire, or public API change.
Public API and wire
None in this PR. meta.md now names the planned wire shape: the SUBSCRIBE field, a mode marker in each group stream header, and payload-less metadata FRAMEs.
Checks
cargo nextest run -p moq-net --test integration route_: 56 passed on each of five runs with random sim seeds, including both route_health fixtures, on head 43d61cd0dc.
just check origin/main: passed.
quest check --base origin/main: ok (587 documents).
Review
mechanical fix by codex / Codex: Merged base and followed its Epoch-to-Instance API migration in two test fixtures; passed cargo build --locked -p moq-net; cargo nextest run --locked -p moq-net --tests --test-threads 4 (3273 passed, 13 skipped; installed Nix library/header search paths supplied); rustfmt --check --edition 2024 rs/moq-net/tests/integration/route_health.rs; git diff --check. (head 3f1ba40)
Round 1 of a new session: quest review --base origin/main using Codex gpt-6.1-sol at medium effort, on head 43d61cd0dc1fa2d3c598a5d179e126f9bb51d20d against base 608e63421e. No findings.
That head also answers the automated reviews on 6db59aee77:
pullfrog, pin the failure kind in the headers-only stall: fixed. The strict Error::Old check failed on one seed with Stream(Old), the reset M1 sends when it drops a group for age. The fixture accepts exactly those two.
CodeRabbit, keep metadata demand live through relay hops: fixed in meta.md.
CodeRabbit, the switch rule before the active's first frame: fixed in the README and recovery.md.
CodeRabbit, terminal behavior when every candidate is quiet: fixed in the README and recovery.md.
Follow-ups
The in-progress group's survival on resume depends on upstream cache state. In silent_kill, when E resumes on M2 while O's copy is still live, E's open group 4 is cut as Old. When O's copy went idle at the same moment, group 4 continues in full. A relay should behave the same warm or cold, so one of these is wrong. Start from route_health::silent_kill with KILLED included, and compare it with route_change::resume_delivers_the_outage_tail_within_the_budget.
Re-evaluate moq-relay's default quic.idle_timeout (10s). Measured loss from a silent kill is about idle_timeout - max_delay. A lower default with keep_alive under a third of it would shrink that loss independently of route health, at the cost of keep-alive traffic and false drops on lossy links.
Maintainer picks (2026-10-31, via /quest-complete):
Stall evidence rule: A — the active's lag behind the standby grows past its own healthy baseline by one frame interval of the track, while the reader is demanding.
Metadata framing on the wire: A — each group stream marks its own mode in its header; metadata FRAMEs keep timestamp and declared size and carry no bytes.
Decisions 3–5 (exploration without max_delay, requalification backoff, standby choice) remain open; route-health is on hold for now.
Resolve route_change.rs's settle() onto kio::clock and port route_health.rs
to kio::clock, #[kio::test], and origin::Consumer::follow.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Fold the 2026-11-02 decisions into the line README, meta.md, selection.md,
and recovery.md: a meta: true standby on the existing SUBSCRIBE, a switch
when the active lags the standby past the reader's max_delay (2s default),
per-stream mode headers with payload-less metadata FRAMEs, exploration on
the same budget with doubling, the next-best standby, and no automatic
return to a demoted preferred route (reversing 2026-10-13).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
No actionable bugs found in the changed fixtures and route-health plans. There is no earlier published review to reconcile.
Direction: reproducing live-session payload stalls separately from delayed disconnects makes the case for track-level health without adding speculative production machinery. Reusing the existing mock transport and resume helpers is proportionate; lowering the transport idle timeout alone would not address the stream-credit/header-only cases. Keeping a verified working route instead of adding failback trials simplifies the planned state machine. This PR changes neither the production API nor wire format.
Verification limits: GitHub-only static inspection of the changes, shared reader/harness and fault-injection behavior; I did not run tests or independently reproduce the reported measurements. The silent-kill metric intentionally excludes the interrupted group, so its zero-loss cases are not a claim of zero total frame loss. The documented warm/cold in-progress-group discrepancy and mixed-reader budget question remain follow-ups, not new findings introduced here.
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ℹ️ Minor suggestions only. Everything else in this quest-and-fixtures PR checks out.
Reviewed changes
Quest decisions recorded — the 2026-11-02 grill outcomes (switch evidence, wire framing option A, the shared 2s default, no auto-return, next-best standby) now live in README.md, meta.md, selection.md, and recovery.md; design.md is deleted and dropped from every ## Required.
Stall fixtures — new rs/moq-net/tests/integration/route_health.rs pins a silent kill that loses detection - max_delay of media and a payload stall on live sessions that no transport failure or reconnect recovers.
Shared helpers — eight route_change.rs helpers are widened to pub(super) for reuse, and the new module is registered in main.rs.
I verified there are no dangling route-health/design.md references anywhere under quest/, that the four quest docs agree with each other and with the PR-body decisions, that no stale "failback"/"requalify preferred route" claims remain in quest/, doc/, rs/, or js/, and that the fixtures' mock knobs act on exactly the hops their cases name (the largest == None vs Some(newest) split is correct because a group header advances the cache largest). IDLE_TIMEOUT matches the documented quic.idle_timeout default.
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Inline comments:
Review comments at @quest/m2/route-health/meta.md:
- Around line 11-18: Update the `Subscription` `meta` semantics so senders
transmit `meta: true` only when peer support is established through an additive
SETUP capability or negotiated protocol version. For unsupported or unconfirmed
peers, report metadata mode as unsupported rather than falling back to
full-payload delivery; preserve normal group and frame progression with payload
omitted when metadata mode is accepted.
Review comments at @quest/m2/route-health/recovery.md:
- Around line 21-29: Define the aggregate route-health budget using the
strictest downstream reader budget, rather than the largest `max_delay`. Treat
each unset `max_delay` as the 2-second default before selecting the strictest
budget, and preserve any existing track-bound clamp.
- Around line 44-48: Define a bounded failure condition for the promotion
transition when metadata continues but no payload arrives from the reader’s
first missing frame. On failure, preserve the usable active copy, drop the
candidate’s payload demand, and advance to the next eligible candidate; reuse
resume’s retained in-flight copies and deduplication to avoid steady duplicate
pulling. Add a test state covering this failure and transition.
Review comments at @rs/moq-net/tests/integration/route_health.rs:
- Around line 164-172: Update observe to distinguish a closed receiver from an
temporarily empty one: use try_next so channel closure marks observed.ended,
while an empty channel simply ends the current observation pass. Preserve
handling of the existing end sentinel and delivery errors.
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The route-health plan now defines metadata-only standby reporting, timestamp-based promotion, bounded candidate exploration, and no automatic return to a recovered preferred route. It also describes relay demand behavior and updates validation scenarios. The Rust integration suite adds tests for silent route loss and live payload stalls, and exposes route-change helpers to the parent test module. The prior design document was removed.
Merge Risk: Moderate · up to 3f1ba
This PR changes only planning documents and integration tests, so there is no production impact. The design should settle how metadata-only subscriptions are gated by peer support, how mixed reader budgets are handled, and when a failed promotion is abandoned before implementation starts. The stall test should also detect a clean subscription end.
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Review comments at @quest/m2/route-health/meta.md:
- Around line 31-35: Update the aggregation behavior so metadata-only demand
continues upstream through relay hops after any held payload copy is exhausted,
preserving live group and frame headers. Release upstream payload demand while
retaining metadata demand, and do not create a health standby for metadata-only
demand.
Review comments at @quest/m2/route-health/README.md:
- Around line 82-86: Define a finite bound and explicit terminal behavior for
quiet-candidate exploration in the Exploration description, including what
happens when every eligible candidate remains quiet. Update the
all-candidates-quiet test to assert that terminal behavior; establish the
intended outcome rather than assuming one.
- Around line 75-81: Clarify the route-health rule for when the active route has
delivered no media, explicitly establishing whether detection waits, uses a
defined missing-position value, or promotes immediately; add the corresponding
case to the test plan. Keep the existing timestamp comparison and other stated
exclusions unchanged.
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Keep metadata-only demand live upstream after a relay demotes it, define the switch rule before the active's first frame, and state what exploration does when every candidate is quiet.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Reviewed commit: 43d61cd0dc1fa2d3c598a5d179e126f9bb51d20d, compared with my previous review at 6db59aee77f654b983a9bf5cc171706062a89523, excluding merged base changes.
Direction remains sound: strengthen the existing fixture and make the planned contract explicit without adding production machinery or another health protocol. One standby with demand-scoped exploration preserves the simpler design. The mixed-reader budget question and interrupted-group measurement limitation noted previously remain unchanged follow-ups, not new findings.
Verification limits: GitHub-only static review of the incremental changes, surrounding reader helper and error mapping. I did not run tests or independently reproduce the reported measurements; the new route-health behavior is still planned, not implemented.
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✅ No new issues found.
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This run re-reviewed the commits since the prior pullfrog review (6db59aee7 → 43d61cd0d): the follow-up pinning the headers-only stall's failure kind, the doc clarifications that close the review gaps, and a merge of main.
Stall fixture pins the failure kind — Observed.failed is now a Vec<Error>, and the headers-only case asserts every cut is Error::Old or the Stream(StreamError::Old) reset M1 sends, matching the doc comment instead of merely counting failures.
Metadata demand stays live through relays — meta.md records that metadata-only demand travels upstream as a live meta: true subscription and that a relay demotes (drops payload demand, keeps metadata demand) rather than releasing it.
Switch rule before the first frame — README and recovery.md measure the active from the standby-reported timestamp of the first frame the reader still needs, so a route silent from the start is caught on the same budget.
Quiet-candidate exploration is bounded — README and recovery.md state that when every candidate is quiet one standby cycles at a time at the doubling wait and nothing fails; recovery.md's test list asserts it.
The prior pullfrog thread on route_health.rs:276 is resolved, and the three CodeRabbit threads on the same gaps are addressed by 43d61cd0d. The quest docs remain internally consistent and no stale design.md references remain.
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The land fixer works on it in the background, and the watcher re-enqueues it at the back of the queue once it is fixed or judged flaky, or hands it back here with what it needs.
quest land watch: armed auto-merge on this pull request at 3f1ba40, so it joins the back of the merge queue once its required checks pass, with the land fixer's fix (codex / Codex): Merged base and followed its Epoch-to-Instance API migration in two test fixtures; passed cargo build --locked -p moq-net; cargo nextest run --locked -p moq-net --tests --test-threads 4 (3273 passed, 13 skipped; installed Nix library/header search paths supplied); rustfmt --check --edition 2024 rs/moq-net/tests/integration/route_health.rs; git diff --check..
Gate meta: true on peer support before sending it.
The plan sends meta: true on the existing SUBSCRIBE, with no sender-side check that the peer supports it. The plan requires older negotiated protocols to explicitly report unsupported mode instead of emulating metadata-only delivery. A peer that ignores unknown fields cannot report anything. It can serve full payload for a metadata subscription. The health standby then receives media it did not request, and nothing signals that metadata mode was not accepted.
Add an additive SETUP capability, or gate the field on a negotiated protocol version, before sending meta: true. The repository convention for rs/moq-net states: "New capabilities are additive SETUP extensions; receivers ignore unknown parameters."
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Review comment at @quest/m2/route-health/meta.md around lines 11 - 18:
Update the `Subscription` `meta` semantics so senders transmit `meta: true` only
when peer support is established through an additive SETUP capability or
negotiated protocol version. For unsupported or unconfirmed peers, report
metadata mode as unsupported rather than falling back to full-payload delivery;
preserve normal group and frame progression with payload omitted when metadata
mode is accepted.
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Major · Functional Correctness · Heavy lift
Supported by static analysis
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printf'%s\n''--- recovery at head ---'
git show 3f1ba40e01181b2d8e4f880a1dbc3a99944e1921:quest/m2/route-health/recovery.md | nl -ba | sed -n '1,180p'printf'%s\n''--- recovery at base ---'
git show 20955c09e94ae2dcc579060365f6dcee2855a328:quest/m2/route-health/recovery.md | nl -ba | sed -n '1,180p'||trueprintf'%s\n''--- route-health references ---'
rg -n -F --glob 'quest/m2/route-health/**' -e 'max_delay' -e 'largest' -e 'aggregate' -e 'budget' -e '2s' -e '2 seconds' quest/m2/route-health ||test"$?" -eq 1
printf'%s\n''--- subscription aggregation references ---'
rg -n -F --glob 'rs/**' -e 'largest downstream' -e 'max_delay' -e 'max delay' rs/moq-net rs/moq-mux ||test"$?" -eq 1
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sed -n '1,175p' rs/moq-net/src/model/track/demand.rs | nl -ba
printf'%s\n''--- aggregate budget tests ---'
sed -n '11370,11505p' rs/moq-net/src/model/track.rs | nl -ba
printf'%s\n''--- subscription aggregate contract ---'
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Define the aggregate route-health budget.
At a relay, route health uses the aggregate subscription budget. That aggregate selects the largest downstream max_delay, so readers with 1-second and 10-second budgets can make failover wait up to 10 seconds, unless a track bound clamps it. The 1-second reader can therefore wait beyond its stated loss budget. Define mixed-reader behavior before implementation. If health remains aggregate, use the strictest applicable budget, including the 2-second default for an unset value.
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Review comment at @quest/m2/route-health/recovery.md around lines 21 - 29:
Define the aggregate route-health budget using the strictest downstream reader
budget, rather than the largest `max_delay`. Treat each unset `max_delay` as the
2-second default before selecting the strictest budget, and preserve any
existing track-bound clamp.
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meta.md defines promotion and demotion when the last payload reader leaves, but it does not define what marks a promotion as failed when metadata continues and the first missing payload never arrives. recovery.md advances exploration only when neither route shows progress, so headers can keep the candidate eligible. Specify a bounded failure condition and test state that preserve the active copy, drop candidate payload demand, and advance to the next eligible candidate without steady duplicate pulling.
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Review comment at @quest/m2/route-health/recovery.md around lines 44 - 48:
Define a bounded failure condition for the promotion transition when metadata
continues but no payload arrives from the reader’s first missing frame. On
failure, preserve the usable active copy, drop the candidate’s payload demand,
and advance to the next eligible candidate; reuse resume’s retained in-flight
copies and deduplication to avoid steady duplicate pulling. Add a test state
covering this failure and transition.
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Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win
Detect a clean subscription end in observe.
ended becomes true only when read sends the (u64::MAX, Err(_)) sentinel. If recv_group() returns Ok(None), read returns without sending anything and drops tx. In that case rx.try_recv() returns an error and the loop exits as if the channel were only empty. ended stays false.
The fixture claims that E's subscription "neither ends nor moves". A regression that ends E's subscription cleanly during the stall would therefore still pass assert!(!e.ended) on Line 266. The moq-net rules say a lost route must end with an error, never a clean end. A clean end is exactly the regression this assertion should catch.
Use try_next() to tell a closed channel apart from an empty one. try_next() returns Ok(None) when the channel is closed and Err(_) when it is only empty.
// The reader dropped its sender: the subscription ended cleanly.
Ok(None) => {
observed.ended = true;
break;
}
Err(_) => break,
}
}
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Review comment at @rs/moq-net/tests/integration/route_health.rs around lines 164
- 172:
Update observe to distinguish a closed receiver from an temporarily empty one:
use try_next so channel closure marks observed.ended, while an empty channel
simply ends the current observation pass. Preserve handling of the existing end
sentinel and delivery errors.
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quest/m2/route-health/design.md.Summary
This reproduces the stall the route-health line needs and measures it. It records the health contract the maintainer settled on 2026-11-02 in the line's quests, then deletes the design quest.
New fixtures in
rs/moq-net/tests/integration/route_health.rsrun on the same-epoch diamondP -> O -> M1/M2 -> Ewith mock time (about 0.6s together):silent_kill_loses_what_detection_outlastskillsM1without a close. It sweeps how longEtakes to notice against the reader'smax_delay, and counts the whole groupsEnever reads.A silent kill costs about
detection - max_delayof media. A standby that detects within the budget loses nothing.a_payload_stall_with_live_sessions_is_never_recoveredhasM1stop delivering payload for 30s while every session stays up. It covers three cases: no upstream stream credit, no downstream credit, and group headers arriving without their frames. In each caseEreads nothing, gets no error, and never changes route, whileWreads all 300 frames throughM2. In the headers-only case,E'slargest()keeps pace withW's while every group fails as too old. The fixture asserts that each failure isError::Old, or theStream(Old)resetM1sends. So comparing two routes' largest positions finds nothing wrong.Lowering the idle timeout would shrink the first case, but nothing at the transport level recovers the second. The line continues.
Quest changes:
design.mdis deleted withquest rm. Its decisions now live in the quests that implement them.README.md: the Goal now keeps a track on the working route instead of returning it to the preferred route. A new 2026-11-02 decision block records the evidence, exploration, and standby rules. The 2026-10-13 auto-return bullet is replaced by the reversal, with its date. The design gate bullet now records that the stall was reproduced. Remaining validation and P2P cases test that the track does not fail back while the working route delivers.meta.md: the field rides on the existing SUBSCRIBE. Group headers carry the mode (option A), metadata FRAMEs keep timestamp and size with no bytes, and promotion is an update on the same subscription. The uncontested aggregation proposal is folded in. Metadata-only demand stays live upstream as ameta: truesubscription. When a relay's last payload reader leaves, it demotes its upstream subscription instead of releasing it. The Wire line now names the settled framing.selection.md: the standby is the next-best candidate, pinned to its own session rather than routed through the front. Only payload demand creates one. Nothing in selection returns a track to a higher-ranked route.recovery.md: the switch rule (lag past the reader'smax_delay, or 2s), what the rule measures before the active's first frame, exploration on the same budget with doubling, what happens when every candidate is quiet, no auto-return, and tests for each. It also flips the measured fixtures into resumes, and adds these counterexamples to its tests: quiet publisher, receiver backpressure, stale or replayed reports, and epoch change.README.md,meta.md, orselection.md.Decisions
Settled by the maintainer in a grill interview on 2026-11-02.
Stall evidence rule. The standby is watched with
Subscription.meta: trueon the existing SUBSCRIBE. "SUBSCRIBE_META" was shorthand, not a new message, so the 2026-10-13 shape is kept. When should the track switch?max_delay.max_delay, while the reader demands. A reader with nomax_delayuses a fixed 2s.Reason: the reader's own budget is the loss it already accepts. A standby that is normally a little faster never overrides application priority, and no per-route baseline or fraction constant is needed. Never compare
largest()values, and never count source silence or a reader that stopped reading.This reverses the 2026-10-31 pick of the baseline rule in the
/quest-completecomment. The 2026-11-02 interview is newer, so it wins.Metadata framing on the wire.
Reason: B races updates against already-open streams.
Exploration. The standby slot moves to the next eligible candidate when neither active nor standby shows progress for the reader's
max_delay, doubling the wait per move. What should a reader withoutmax_delayuse?max_delay.Reason: one constant drives both the switch and exploration.
Requalification of a demoted preferred route.
This reverses the 2026-10-13 line decision ("Automatically return to the preferred route after useful media delivery demonstrates recovery"). The README and
recovery.mdrecord the reversal with its date.Standby choice.
The aggregation proposal was not contested and is folded into
meta.mdandselection.mdas written.Choices made without asking
recovery.mddefines the reader's budget at a relay as the aggregated subscription's: the largest downstreammax_delay, which the aggregate already carries. It leaves one question open for that quest. When one aggregated reader has nomax_delay, the aggregate has none either and drops to 2s, which may be shorter than another reader's budget.recovery.mdflips them rather than adding new ones.silent_killleaves out the rest of the killed group (group 4). WhetherEkeeps reading it depends on whetherO's copy went idle before the resume, not on the detection delay. See follow-ups.meta: truesubscription. The Goal already said relays forward it.route_change.rspub(super)so the new module reuses them instead of copying them.64ffd7e409, in this round. An earlier merge of main movedroute_health.rsto main'skio::clockand#[kio::test](from moq-dev/moq#7027).Public API and wire
None in this PR.
meta.mdnow names the planned wire shape: the SUBSCRIBE field, a mode marker in each group stream header, and payload-less metadata FRAMEs.Checks
cargo nextest run -p moq-net --test integration route_: 56 passed on each of five runs with random sim seeds, including bothroute_healthfixtures, on head43d61cd0dc.just check origin/main: passed.quest check --base origin/main: ok (587 documents).Review
mechanical fix by codex / Codex:
Merged base and followed its Epoch-to-Instance API migration in two test fixtures; passed cargo build --locked -p moq-net; cargo nextest run --locked -p moq-net --tests --test-threads 4 (3273 passed, 13 skipped; installed Nix library/header search paths supplied); rustfmt --check --edition 2024 rs/moq-net/tests/integration/route_health.rs; git diff --check.(head 3f1ba40)Round 1 of a new session:
quest review --base origin/mainusing Codexgpt-6.1-solat medium effort, on head43d61cd0dc1fa2d3c598a5d179e126f9bb51d20dagainst base608e63421e. No findings.That head also answers the automated reviews on
6db59aee77:Error::Oldcheck failed on one seed withStream(Old), the resetM1sends when it drops a group for age. The fixture accepts exactly those two.meta.md.recovery.md.recovery.md.Follow-ups
silent_kill, whenEresumes onM2whileO's copy is still live,E's open group 4 is cut asOld. WhenO's copy went idle at the same moment, group 4 continues in full. A relay should behave the same warm or cold, so one of these is wrong. Start fromroute_health::silent_killwithKILLEDincluded, and compare it withroute_change::resume_delivers_the_outage_tail_within_the_budget.quic.idle_timeout(10s). Measured loss from a silent kill is aboutidle_timeout - max_delay. A lower default withkeep_aliveunder a third of it would shrink that loss independently of route health, at the cost of keep-alive traffic and false drops on lossy links.(Written by Claude Opus 5.5)
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