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feat(net): a refused forwarded route drops the route, not the session - #8672
Quest: quest/m1/refuse-route.md (deleted here; the quest is complete).
A lite-07 receiver that refuses a route or claim because of content the neighbour only forwarded now withdraws that route or claim and keeps the session, as BGP does with "treat as withdraw" (RFC 7606). Only the neighbour's own framing and per-stream state still close it. This lets relays on two releases share a mesh while a newer one adds a flag, raises a limit, or adds a check.
New decode-only AnnounceBroadcast::Refused { message, reason }. It says what the message still assigns (a Route ID, Announce ID, or Warm ID) so later ids line up, and why it was refused. The receiver skips the rest of the body.
Content refusals:
Routes: Node ID 0, the last seqno, an unknown flag bit, more than 32 hops.
Claims: an invalid path, including a resolved path past the limits or a base naming a refused path; an invalid Instance; a bad Lite-06 Chain (empty or repeating a hop).
Warm routes: a carrier not among the hops, more than 32 hops, an invalid path or Instance.
Still close the session: an RTT flag without its RTT, hops missing or trailing bytes, keep without a base, keep past the base's segments, any unknown Route ID or Announce ID, a second route to the same node, and a duplicate path on one route.
Refused route: the Route ID stays assigned, and the route node holds no route, as after a ROUTE_END. Its claims go offline while the peer's other routes and claims stay. A later usable ROUTE_UPDATE files the route again with its last floor's claims. A route to node 0 stays refused.
Refused claim: the Announce ID is kept and the claim goes offline at the next floor. While its route holds a refused claim, the route's floors certify nothing, so readers see Offline (not End) and a relay forwards no withdrawal the origin never made. A later usable ANNOUNCE_RESTART brings it back, unless its path was refused. ANNOUNCE_END and ROUTE_END retire refused claims like any other, and once none is left the route's floors certify again.
JS End vs Offline: a claim gone reports offline where the newest floor certifying it still presents it, or where its route holds a refused claim and no floor certifies it gone. Any other uncertified withdrawal still reports end, as before.
Logging and counting: each refusal logs a warning with its route or claim and the reason, and is counted (see Public API).
Encode side: no code change was needed. The router never selects a route that arrives with 32 hops, so a relay's own hop never pushes a forwarded route past what a peer can decode. route::node now has a test for this: 31 hops forwards at 32 and encodes, while 32 hops is not forwarded.
Draft:draft-lcurley-moq-lite gets a "Refused Content" section and a changelog bullet. The per-field PROTOCOL_VIOLATION rules for forwarded content now say "refused".
Decisions (taken without asking; please review)
A refused claim goes offline, and its route's floors certify nothing while it holds one. The maintainer decided this on 2026-11-13 (/quest-complete), accepting the cost: while the refusal lasts, that route's real withdrawals also show as Offline here, and its floors stop holding back stale copies. ✅ uncertify the route's floors (rejected: excluding only the refused path from certification, which the wire can't express downstream anyway; keeping End, which certifies and forwards a withdrawal the origin never made). CodeRabbit thread.
A claim whose path was refused counts as refused too, for good until its ANNOUNCE_END. A path past this node's limits may be one a newer relay accepts, so certifying it absent would be just as false. Taken by the agent under /quest-afk, for the maintainer's review. ✅ count it (rejected: counting only refused content at a valid path).
JS still reads an uncertified withdrawal as end, except where a refusal or a newer certifying floor says otherwise. Rust reads every uncertified withdrawal as Offline. Matching that in JS failed every finish * -> js-native-* interop lane. A JS lite-07 reader asks for the root prefix under a scoped grant, so a relay certifies nothing to it, and a clean finish read offline, which Plan item 16 rejected. The cost: a JS endpoint behind a relay that refused a claim sees end, not offline. JS can match Rust once it narrows its request to its scope's region, as Rust does; route-stream Plan item 3 owns that. Taken by the agent under /quest-afk, for the maintainer's review. ✅ the narrow rule (rejected: Rust's rule now, which breaks clean finishes for JS readers; reporting end for refusals too, which reads a refusal as the origin's withdrawal).
An unknown flag bit refuses the route; it is not ignored. A new flag may change what the route means, or put a field ahead of the hops that would then be misread. This matches the Plan's rejected "skip unknown flags and keep the route".
A resolved path that fails validation is refused, not a violation. This covers a half escape cut by Path Keep, or a path past 32 segments or 4096 bytes. Telling a buggy base apart from a forwarded path past a newer limit would mean matching on the path error, so both are refused and bounded by the announce cap.
The announce cap still closes the session. Tracking refused ids past the cap would be unbounded, so the cap remains a session limit, not content.
Refusals are counted in Presence.routes_refused. It is one counter per stats label, not split by reason; the reason is in the log.
JS keeps a refused route's floors like any unusable route, such as one at 32 hops. Rust keeps its batches out of the route node. Either way its claims go offline, and the JS client is an endpoint, not a relay.
Session closes are tested on the scripted lite-07 session, not a second relay build, as the quest Plan decided.
A claim refused only because its path joined with this node's interest prefix breaks the limits still serves as a Path Base. Its suffix resolved, so a dependent claim resolves exactly as its literal encoding would and gets its own path check; only a base whose suffix failed to resolve refuses its dependents. Rust does the same. Taken by the agent under /quest-afk, for the maintainer's review. ✅ keep the base usable (rejected: CodeRabbit's suggestion to refuse dependents too, which makes a compressed claim differ from its literal form). CodeRabbit thread.
Design checkpoint (Pullfrog's third round with findings): continue. The findings landed in one place, JS's per-stream End/Offline classification, where a second "newest certifying view" rule drifted from shows(). Both now share one helper, which removes that class of finding; the uncertified-floor design stays. Taken by the agent under /quest-afk, for the maintainer's review. ✅ continue with the shared helper (rejected: rethinking the approach, since no finding touched the Rust relay side or the decision itself; merging as is, which keeps a false end).
Public API / wire
Wire: lite-07-wip only. A receiver now tolerates content that it used to close the session on. Nothing sent changes, so it stays compatible with relays that send what they did before.
Rust:moq_net::stats::Presence gains routes_refused: u64, additive on a #[non_exhaustive] struct, serialized in the stats JSON.
JS:@moq/statsPresenceSchema gains routes_refused, and doc/concept/stats.md describes it.
Not breaking.
Validation
Session fixtures on the scripted lite-07 announce stream with sim time (lite/subscriber.rs):
For each route refusal (unknown flag, last seqno, 33 hops), a refused ROUTE_UPDATE takes route 0's claim offline. Route 1's claim stays, a new claim on route 1 still arrives, and a valid ROUTE_UPDATE brings it back. Each is counted once.
A refused ROUTE_START, including node 0, still takes Route ID 0, so the next route's ids line up. Node 0 never revives, and ROUTE_END retires the route.
Refused claims (invalid path, empty instance, empty Lite-06 Chain on UPDATE, empty instance on RESTART) go offline alone, come back on RESTART, and end cleanly. While one is held, another claim's end on that route is Offline; once the last refused claim ends, the next end is End again.
No forwarded withdrawal:a_refused_claim_forwards_no_withdrawal (lite/subscriber/routed.rs) reads the batches a relay's downstream stream would send. A refused ANNOUNCE_UPDATE, and later a refused ANNOUNCE_RESTART, remove the claim under a floor that certifies nothing. Another claim's change meanwhile also certifies nothing, and a usable restart certifies again. Before the change, the edge got the withdrawal certified at revision 1. JS has a lite-07 refused claim goes offline, its route certifying nothing meanwhile, which fails without the change (it reported end). a lite-07 refused claim another stream still certifies goes offline covers a second stream still certifying the claim present. a lite-07 refused claim a lagging stream never had goes offline covers a retained newer floor beating an older live one.
An unknown Route ID or Announce ID, even inside a refused message, still closes with PROTOCOL_VIOLATION.
Cached consumes:a lite-07 route refused once live gives a held consume back its broader claim (JS) holds a minted consume a narrower certified view took off a broader uncertified claim, then refuses that view's route. The next track request on the held consume opens a stream; before the fix it was refused. Rust takes the same stream.route(node, None) call as ROUTE_END, so it already re-derives coverage.
Hop limit: a route::node test shows a route at 32 hops is not forwarded, and one at 31 is forwarded and encodes on lite-07.
Cross-language:rs/moq-net/fixtures/lite.json adds a withdrawn outcome that Rust and JS replay and agree on. Five route cases and two claim cases are withdrawn, and a truncated claim is refused. JS has a matching session test (a lite-07 refused route or claim withdraws only itself).
Checks:just check passes. cargo test -p moq-net -p moq-stats --all-features passes. JS tests for js/net and js/stats pass. just drafts check passes.
Interop:just test interop --all on cf49d65 and again on b7aa6a4: 214 pass, 1 skip, and 1 failure, refused session. That is the WebSocket redial expectation moq-dev/moq#8694 fixed on main after this branch's base, and it doesn't involve route messages. An earlier head that read every uncertified withdrawal as offline in JS also failed all 45 finish lanes (see Decisions).
Caused by
No single PR. Lite-07's route layer was introduced closing the session on every decode failure, so this is a new rule, not a regression.
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Implementer: Claude Code, claude-opus-5-5, unknown effort (iterate, M)
mechanical fix by codex, gpt-6.1-sol, medium effort: Merged base and aliased the colliding announce Refusal type without runtime changes; ran nix develop --command just ci base (all other checks passed), nix develop --command just biome (passed after import sorting), and nix develop --command just test interop --all (passed). (head 1bc219c)
Score: 10/10, No actionable defects found in the incremental change, which makes visibility and withdrawal classification use the same live and retained views; builds and tests were not run as instructed.
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A relay that refuses a forwarded route drops the route, not the session
feat(net): a refused forwarded route drops the route, not the session
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… the rest
A root claim's empty path is a path in JS, a refused route's floors stay out of
the node's shared floors as Rust's node never holds it, and a claim whose path
resolves past the limits is logged and counted like any other refusal.
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Floors.leave retains the route's claims by reference, so a refused route reads on
into a copy of its own.
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I reviewed the whole PR: lite-07 receivers now refuse content a neighbour only forwarded. Each refused route or claim is withdrawn, and the session stays open. Rust, JS, the draft, and stats all change together.
Codec refusals:AnnounceBroadcast::Refused { message, reason } (Rust) and status: "refused" (JS) still give the receiver the Route, Announce, or Warm ID, skip the rest of the body, and keep framing errors (an RTT flag without its RTT, missing hops, a keep without a base) as violations.
Compression state:AnnounceDecoder / AnnounceHistory track refused ids. A base that names one is refused too, and an ANNOUNCE_END retires it cleanly. Pre-lite-07 paths still turn a refusal into PROTOCOL_VIOLATION.
Receiver lifecycle:WireRoute.reach: Option / advert: Advert | undefined take a live route offline when it is refused. A later usable ROUTE_UPDATE files the claims from its last floor again. Node 0 never revives, ROUTE_HOLD on a refused route does nothing, and ROUTE_END also retires unnamed claims. In JS, a refused route leaves Floors and keeps a copy of what its floor certified.
Stats:Presence.routes_refused is a monotonic per-label counter. It is serialized (the #[serde(default)] on the container covers older JSON), merged, checked for regressions in moq-stats, and mirrored in @moq/stats.
Draft and fixtures: the draft gains a Refused Content section with matching per-field wording. The cross-language corpus gains a withdrawn outcome, and there are new scripted-session fixtures and a hop-limit forwarding test.
I checked the parts that looked risky:
has_announce_restart, has_routes, and has_instance cover the same versions, so it is safe that Rust now always decodes the lite-07 restart.
The JS TextDecoder is fatal, so JS and Rust refuse the same instances.
Floors.leave does nothing for a carrier that never joined.
Hops::push caps the Lite-06 chain at 32, so decoding it is bounded.
ℹ️ routes_refused does not reach the relay's Prometheus /metrics
doc/concept/stats.md describes a rising routes_refused as the signal that two releases disagree during a rollout. Today the counter appears only in the stats JSON. moq-relay's encode_sessions exports other Presence counters (wire_tx, wire_rx, requests, sessions_*) but not this one. An operator who alerts on Prometheus won't see refusals unless they also read moq-stats. This can merge as-is; exporting it is optional.
Technical details
# Export `routes_refused` as a relay Prometheus counter## Affected sites- rs/moq-relay/src/internal.rs (`encode_sessions`, the `[(name, help, field)]` list near `moq_relay_wire_rx_bytes`): no entry for `Presence::routes_refused`.
- rs/moq-relay/src/internal.rs golden `/metrics` text (around the `# TYPE moq_relay_wire_rx_bytes_total counter` expectation): would gain a line.
## Required outcome- A per-tier counter (e.g. `moq_relay_routes_refused`) reading `|p| p.routes_refused`, so the rollout signal the docs describe can be scraped and alerted on.
## Open questions for the human- Is the stats JSON (moq-stats) the intended place to watch this, making a Prometheus counter unnecessary?
Lite-07 decoders now distinguish unusable forwarded content from malformed messages. Refused content receives a refusal result, and its assigned IDs remain synchronized. Subscribers withdraw the affected route or claim without ending the session, and can restore routes when later content is usable. Presence statistics and their schemas include a routes_refused counter.
Merge Risk: Low · up to 1bc21
A JavaScript subscriber can accept a compressed claim that the draft says to refuse. This happens only when a peer sends a path that is invalid after joining with the interest prefix, and then a later claim names that path's ID as its base. The effect is limited and the session stays open, so it can be fixed before or shortly after merge.
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Review comments at @js/net/src/lite/subscriber.ts:
- Line 1282: After the route-refusal call to refreshRoute(wire, true),
revalidate cached consume validity using the existing mechanism from the
routeEnd branch so minted consumes can become usable again when the covering
restriction is removed. Add a regression test with a held minted consume that
verifies it accepts track requests after the broader claim becomes usable.
Review comments at @rs/moq-net/src/lite/subscriber/routed.rs:
- Line 313: Update the invalid ANNOUNCE_UPDATE and ANNOUNCE_RESTART handling
around self.pending(id, None) so it records a content refusal as Offline rather
than a deliberate claim removal. Preserve that distinction through the pending
batch and node output so readers receive Offline, while explicit ANNOUNCE_END
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…ROUTE_END does
Leaving the node's floors can make a broader claim cover a path again, and
show() skips the unchanged claim, so a held consume kept the validity a
narrower floor had aborted until something else re-checked its path.
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Since the last Pullfrog review, one commit has landed. It fixes the CodeRabbit finding about cached consumes in js/net.
Refused ROUTE_UPDATE re-checks consumes: if the route had joined the floors, the refusal branch in js/net/src/lite/subscriber.ts now calls this.#consumes.revalidate() after refreshRoute(wire, true). This matches the routeEnd branch. A held minted consume that a narrower certified view took off a broader claim can be routed again once that view's route is refused.
Regression test:a lite-07 route refused once live gives a held consume back its broader claim sends the raw refused ROUTE_UPDATE. It checks that the next track request on the held consume opens a stream instead of being refused. routedStream() now also returns opened for this test.
Because of the joined guard, a route that was already refused or never usable skips the re-check. That route was never in the floors, so leaving it changes no coverage. Rust needs no change: the refusal calls stream.route(node, None), the same call ROUTE_END makes.
…g nothing meanwhile
A claim this node refuses was not withdrawn by its origin, so while its route
holds one, the route's floors certify nothing: readers see it go offline, and
a relay forwards no withdrawal the origin never made. Once the last refused
claim ends, the route's floors certify again.
JS now reports a claim gone where no live floor certifies its path as offline,
as Rust's router already does.
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…drew it
Another stream certifying a refused claim still present proves no withdrawal,
so the refusing stream's reader sees it go offline rather than end.
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… involved
A JS reader asks for a prefix wider than its scope's region, so a relay
certifies nothing to it, and a broadcast's clean finish would read offline.
Report offline only where the newest certifying floor still presents the
claim, or the route holds a refused claim and no floor certifies it gone.
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ℹ️ No critical issues. There is one minor JS parity suggestion inline.
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Since the last Pullfrog review, three commits have landed. They settle the CodeRabbit question of End vs Offline for a refused claim: a refused claim now goes offline, and its route's floors certify nothing while it holds one.
withheld set per route: Rust WireRoute and JS Route now track live claims at a valid path whose content was refused. A refused ANNOUNCE_UPDATE/ANNOUNCE_RESTART, or a refused-content ANNOUNCE_START, adds the claim. A usable restart or an ANNOUNCE_END removes it, and ROUTE_END drops it along with the route.
Floors uncertified while refusing: while unnamed or withheld is non-empty, ANNOUNCE_FLOOR drops its revision. In Rust, committed stores None, so a revived route or a limit() refile also stays uncertified. route::View::apply replaces the floors, so the node's view regresses without an explicit call. In JS, regress now uses the filtered revision.
JS End vs Offline:show() reports offline when Floors.certified() finds the newest certifying floor still presents the claim, or when the route is refusing and nothing certifies the path. Any other uncertified withdrawal still reports end.
Tests and draft: the Rust session fixture now expects Offline. It also checks that the route certifies again once the last refused claim ends. a_refused_claim_forwards_no_withdrawal checks that the relay's downstream batches carry no certified withdrawal. There are two new JS session tests, and the draft's Refused Content section and changelog are updated.
Floors.certified() picked the newest certifying view from the live carriers
only, so an older live floor without a refused claim could beat the refusing
route's retained newer one and report a false end. Both now share one helper.
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One commit has landed since the last Pullfrog review. It fixes the earlier JS parity note about Floors.certified().
Shared #newest helper:Floors.shows() and Floors.certified() in js/net/src/lite/floors.ts now pick the deciding view through the same private #newest. That helper looks at the view itself (which wins a tie), then the live carriers, and then the retained views, but only once a live view certifies the path. A newer retained floor from a refusing route now beats an older live floor on a lagging stream, so the refused claim reports offline instead of end.
Regression test:a lite-07 refused claim a lagging stream never had goes offline covers the exact scenario: stream A at rev 7 presents live/x, stream B lags at rev 5 without it, then A sends a refused ANNOUNCE_RESTART.
covers() still uses its own selection with a prefix-length tie-break. That is consistent with Rust's covering, so it is fine that it stays separate.
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codex, gpt-6.1-sol, medium effort land fixer note:
Merged base and renamed the announce-only type import to AnnounceRefusal, preserving the separate Refusal type from fills.ts. This changes only TypeScript type annotations. All 13,069 Rust tests passed, TypeScript checks/builds/tests passed, and the full cross-language interop suite passed. The initial queue check caught import ordering after the alias; the final Biome rerun passed.
quest land watch: armed auto-merge on this pull request at 1bc219c, so it joins the back of the merge queue once its required checks pass, with the land fixer's fix (codex, gpt-6.1-sol, medium effort): Merged base and aliased the colliding announce Refusal type without runtime changes; ran nix develop --command just ci base (all other checks passed), nix develop --command just biome (passed after import sorting), and nix develop --command just test interop --all (passed)..
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Since the last Pullfrog review, main was merged in and one follow-up commit landed. Nothing changes at runtime.
Renamed an import after the merge: the merge brought in type Refusal from js/net/src/lite/fills.ts, which clashes with announce's Refusal. js/net/src/lite/subscriber.ts now imports announce's type as type Refusal as AnnounceRefusal. The only place it's used is the refused closure's signature. AnnounceHistory also moved into sorted import order.
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- Around line 1271-1274: Update the named === undefined branch in startClaim to
mark the announce ID as refused in AnnounceHistory when the suffix resolved but
the joined path failed Path.check. Keep the ID retired, and make endedId cleanup
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Brings in #8637, #8672, #8699, #8673 and #8722.
#8672's refusal rule is ported onto the path wire. A Route Offer now spells its
path first, so a receiver that refuses the rest of the offer still learns the
path a later DEAD may name. Each DEAD Moved offer is sized, so one refused
offer leaves the next readable. A refused route keeps its Route ID and its
path, follows DEADs like any other route, and files again with its last
floor's claims once a usable offer arrives.
A prefix that no believed route certifies now shows what the selected live
route carries. A sender refusing a claim, which sends no floors while it
holds one, then still shows its other claims.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Quest:
quest/m1/refuse-route.md(deleted here; the quest is complete).A lite-07 receiver that refuses a route or claim because of content the neighbour only forwarded now withdraws that route or claim and keeps the session, as BGP does with "treat as withdraw" (RFC 7606). Only the neighbour's own framing and per-stream state still close it. This lets relays on two releases share a mesh while a newer one adds a flag, raises a limit, or adds a check.
Changes
Codec (
rs/moq-net/src/lite/announce.rs,js/net/src/lite/announce.ts)AnnounceBroadcast::Refused { message, reason }. It says what the message still assigns (a Route ID, Announce ID, or Warm ID) so later ids line up, and why it was refused. The receiver skips the rest of the body.Receiver (
lite/subscriber/routed.rs,js/net/src/lite/subscriber.ts)offlinewhere the newest floor certifying it still presents it, or where its route holds a refused claim and no floor certifies it gone. Any other uncertified withdrawal still reportsend, as before.Encode side: no code change was needed. The router never selects a route that arrives with 32 hops, so a relay's own hop never pushes a forwarded route past what a peer can decode.
route::nodenow has a test for this: 31 hops forwards at 32 and encodes, while 32 hops is not forwarded.Draft:
draft-lcurley-moq-litegets a "Refused Content" section and a changelog bullet. The per-fieldPROTOCOL_VIOLATIONrules for forwarded content now say "refused".Decisions (taken without asking; please review)
A refused claim goes offline, and its route's floors certify nothing while it holds one. The maintainer decided this on 2026-11-13 (/quest-complete), accepting the cost: while the refusal lasts, that route's real withdrawals also show as Offline here, and its floors stop holding back stale copies. ✅ uncertify the route's floors (rejected: excluding only the refused path from certification, which the wire can't express downstream anyway; keeping End, which certifies and forwards a withdrawal the origin never made). CodeRabbit thread.
A claim whose path was refused counts as refused too, for good until its ANNOUNCE_END. A path past this node's limits may be one a newer relay accepts, so certifying it absent would be just as false. Taken by the agent under /quest-afk, for the maintainer's review. ✅ count it (rejected: counting only refused content at a valid path).
JS still reads an uncertified withdrawal as
end, except where a refusal or a newer certifying floor says otherwise. Rust reads every uncertified withdrawal as Offline. Matching that in JS failed everyfinish * -> js-native-*interop lane. A JS lite-07 reader asks for the root prefix under a scoped grant, so a relay certifies nothing to it, and a clean finish read offline, which Plan item 16 rejected. The cost: a JS endpoint behind a relay that refused a claim seesend, notoffline. JS can match Rust once it narrows its request to its scope's region, as Rust does; route-stream Plan item 3 owns that. Taken by the agent under /quest-afk, for the maintainer's review. ✅ the narrow rule (rejected: Rust's rule now, which breaks clean finishes for JS readers; reportingendfor refusals too, which reads a refusal as the origin's withdrawal).An unknown flag bit refuses the route; it is not ignored. A new flag may change what the route means, or put a field ahead of the hops that would then be misread. This matches the Plan's rejected "skip unknown flags and keep the route".
A resolved path that fails validation is refused, not a violation. This covers a half escape cut by
Path Keep, or a path past 32 segments or 4096 bytes. Telling a buggy base apart from a forwarded path past a newer limit would mean matching on the path error, so both are refused and bounded by the announce cap.The announce cap still closes the session. Tracking refused ids past the cap would be unbounded, so the cap remains a session limit, not content.
Refusals are counted in
Presence.routes_refused. It is one counter per stats label, not split by reason; the reason is in the log.JS keeps a refused route's floors like any unusable route, such as one at 32 hops. Rust keeps its batches out of the route node. Either way its claims go offline, and the JS client is an endpoint, not a relay.
Session closes are tested on the scripted lite-07 session, not a second relay build, as the quest Plan decided.
A claim refused only because its path joined with this node's interest prefix breaks the limits still serves as a
Path Base. Its suffix resolved, so a dependent claim resolves exactly as its literal encoding would and gets its own path check; only a base whose suffix failed to resolve refuses its dependents. Rust does the same. Taken by the agent under /quest-afk, for the maintainer's review. ✅ keep the base usable (rejected: CodeRabbit's suggestion to refuse dependents too, which makes a compressed claim differ from its literal form). CodeRabbit thread.Design checkpoint (Pullfrog's third round with findings): continue. The findings landed in one place, JS's per-stream End/Offline classification, where a second "newest certifying view" rule drifted from
shows(). Both now share one helper, which removes that class of finding; the uncertified-floor design stays. Taken by the agent under /quest-afk, for the maintainer's review. ✅ continue with the shared helper (rejected: rethinking the approach, since no finding touched the Rust relay side or the decision itself; merging as is, which keeps a falseend).Public API / wire
moq_net::stats::Presencegainsroutes_refused: u64, additive on a#[non_exhaustive]struct, serialized in the stats JSON.@moq/statsPresenceSchemagainsroutes_refused, anddoc/concept/stats.mddescribes it.Validation
lite/subscriber.rs):a_refused_claim_forwards_no_withdrawal(lite/subscriber/routed.rs) reads the batches a relay's downstream stream would send. A refused ANNOUNCE_UPDATE, and later a refused ANNOUNCE_RESTART, remove the claim under a floor that certifies nothing. Another claim's change meanwhile also certifies nothing, and a usable restart certifies again. Before the change, the edge got the withdrawal certified at revision 1. JS hasa lite-07 refused claim goes offline, its route certifying nothing meanwhile, which fails without the change (it reportedend).a lite-07 refused claim another stream still certifies goes offlinecovers a second stream still certifying the claim present.a lite-07 refused claim a lagging stream never had goes offlinecovers a retained newer floor beating an older live one.a lite-07 route refused once live gives a held consume back its broader claim(JS) holds a minted consume a narrower certified view took off a broader uncertified claim, then refuses that view's route. The next track request on the held consume opens a stream; before the fix it was refused. Rust takes the samestream.route(node, None)call as ROUTE_END, so it already re-derives coverage.route::nodetest shows a route at 32 hops is not forwarded, and one at 31 is forwarded and encodes on lite-07.rs/moq-net/fixtures/lite.jsonadds awithdrawnoutcome that Rust and JS replay and agree on. Five route cases and two claim cases arewithdrawn, and a truncated claim isrefused. JS has a matching session test (a lite-07 refused route or claim withdraws only itself).just checkpasses.cargo test -p moq-net -p moq-stats --all-featurespasses. JS tests forjs/netandjs/statspass.just drafts checkpasses.just test interop --allon cf49d65 and again on b7aa6a4: 214 pass, 1 skip, and 1 failure,refused session. That is the WebSocket redial expectation moq-dev/moq#8694 fixed on main after this branch's base, and it doesn't involve route messages. An earlier head that read every uncertified withdrawal as offline in JS also failed all 45finishlanes (see Decisions).Caused by
No single PR. Lite-07's route layer was introduced closing the session on every decode failure, so this is a new rule, not a regression.
Follow-ups
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Review
mechanical fix by codex, gpt-6.1-sol, medium effort:
Merged base and aliased the colliding announce Refusal type without runtime changes; ran nix develop --command just ci base (all other checks passed), nix develop --command just biome (passed after import sorting), and nix develop --command just test interop --all (passed).(head 1bc219c)Rewritten by
quest reviewafter each round.Head: b7aa6a4
Base: origin/main at a1a6c49
Reviewer: Codex, gpt-6.1-sol, high effort
Session:
01a1d82d-360d-7c43-a80e-b7ce47b0fa32, round 6Score: 10/10,
No actionable defects found in the incremental change, which makes visibility and withdrawal classification use the same live and retained views; builds and tests were not run as instructed.Rounds: 6; findings 2 (medium 2): fixed 1, refuted 1, open 0
Findings: none