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Completes Plan: untimed objects. The plan becomes three implementation quests and one smaller plan quest, and the plan file is deleted. It also splits the broadcast-clock input out of publish-timestamp into its own small quest, which needs neither blocker.

Quest Size Branch Required
moq-net carries untimed frames faithfully L main -
@moq/net carries untimed frames faithfully M main -
lite-07 encodes an absent timestamp S main both model quests
Plan: untimed verbatim PES S plan Rust model
moq-mux data producers take a broadcast-clock timestamp S main -
  • Required lists:
    • publish-timestamp and data-consumer-timestamps now require the Rust model quest, and the two JS quests require the JS model quest.
    • publish-timestamp also requires mux-data-timestamp, so the two signature changes to the same producers land in order. It shrinks to the "None means untimed" part and is resized to [M].
    • None of the four requires lite-07. Until it lands, a lite encoder writes its send time for an untimed frame, which is what producers effectively do today, so nothing regresses.
  • Other quests touched:
    • cmaf-frame-timestamp records that an untimed CMAF frame is refused.
    • cache-wall-eviction records that untimed groups age out only through the pool's expiry, and the two quests now cross-link.

Facts gathered

  • Code:
    • Receivers fill in arrival time on these paths: Rust lite before lite-05, Rust IETF subgroup, fetch and datagram objects, JS lite with no timescale, and JS IETF.
    • track::Info.timescale is never absent, so a relay announces a timescale for an IETF track that sent none.
    • Several model decisions treat "has a timestamp" as "has a frame" (poll_timestamp, GroupExpiry).
  • IETF peers (code at HEAD, 2026-10-02):
    • moxygen sends neither TIMESCALE nor Timestamp. All its objects become untimed.
    • imquic's LOC examples put TIMESCALE and Timestamp on each object, and no TIMESCALE on the track.
    • libquicr sends neither.
    • MOQtail defines the ids, but whether it sends them wasn't determined.
  • Interop matrix: the in-tree matrix has no external peers. The community runner's tests don't touch timestamps.

Decisions

How should the implementation work be split?

  • ✅ Rust, JS, lite-07: three quests on the trunk, lite-07 after both model quests
  • Rust+lite-07, JS
  • One XL quest

The JS model change overlaps rs2ts. How should the JS side be planned?

  • ✅ Own JS quest, rs2ts Related
  • Wait for rs2ts

imquic sends TIMESCALE and Timestamp per object with no track TIMESCALE. Treat such objects as timed?

  • ✅ Honour it
  • Keep untimed

What should a legacy or LOC consumer do with an untimed end-marker frame?

  • ✅ Ignore the marker (the frames play from their payload timestamps; only the last frame's duration is estimated)
  • Refuse it
  • Leave to the quest

Should the Rust model quest record a constraint for CMAF?

  • ✅ Note it on cmaf-frame-timestamp
  • Nothing

What should the four timestamp quests require?

  • ✅ Model quests only
  • Also require lite-07

The mpegts draft gives a PES without a PTS timestamp 0. Where should that go?

  • ✅ Own XS quest
  • Fold into the Rust model quest
  • Leave it

After review: verbatim PES tracks carry a timestamp inside the legacy payload. How should that quest change?

  • ✅ Make it a plan quest ("Plan: untimed verbatim PES" [S]), with the maintainer deciding the carriage
  • Resize to [S] and implement
  • Drop it from this PR

cache-wall-eviction weighs max(wall, pts) for max_age. How should it be reconciled?

  • ✅ Cross-link plus one line
  • Leave it alone

Names

  • ✅ untimed-model, js-untimed-model, lite-untimed, ts-pes-untimed (renamed plan-ts-pes-untimed after review)
  • A questline

A docs quest beyond the drafts?

  • ✅ No: each quest fixes the docs it makes stale
  • Add a docs quest

Split of publish-timestamp (added after the first reviews)

The moq-mux JSON and binary producers take Timed<_, Instant> on main. Taking a broadcast-clock Timestamp instead (from a Lane, or a consumer's Timed.at) needs neither untimed frames nor the FFI namespace move. moq-ffi and moq-c pass bare values and compile unchanged, so there's no conflict with #4519.

Goal: moq-mux data producers accept a broadcast-clock timestamp, with Clock::capture public; None, FFI and bindings out of scope?

  • ✅ Yes, as stated
  • Also moq-json/binary

Where should the quest go?

  • ✅ Into this PR (it edits publish-timestamp.md too)
  • Separate PR on this branch
  • Separate PR off main

What does at: None mean in the split?

  • ✅ Keep "stamp now" until publish-timestamp makes it untimed
  • Require a timestamp

Name, size and ordering?

  • ✅ mux-data-timestamp [S], first in publish-timestamp's Required list
  • Same, but only Related

Public API / wire: none in this PR (quests only). The planned changes are breaking on main (the trunk since the branch flip), with a wire change only on the unpublished lite-07-wip.

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Outcome: the plan is replaced by untimed-model [L], js-untimed-model [M], lite-untimed [S] and ts-pes-untimed [XS], all on dev. The four timestamp quests now require only the model quest for their language. The decisions and the facts gathered are in the description. Nothing is left open. Two IETF facts were not determined: whether MOQtail sends timestamps, and what the community runner's other peers (quiche-moq, moq-go, moqtopus, xquic, Cloudflare moq-rs) do. Neither changes the plan, since an untimed object is handled the same way whichever peer sent it.

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Reviewed commit: 201d65f

The Rust/JS model split and joint lite-07 wire change are a sensible direction. Three plan corrections are needed before implementation:

  • P2: Preserve unknown successor bounds. untimed-model.md:58–60 says reach/successor searches skip unstamped groups, but track.rs:549–565 and resume.rs:145–158 deliberately stop at the immediate unstamped successor. Skipping to a later timestamp can expire still-valid content; an_unstamped_immediate_successor_leaves_reach_unbounded pins this. Distinguish live-edge search from reach calculation, preserve an unknown bound across untimed successors, and cover mixed timed/untimed groups in both languages.
  • P2: Keep timestamps on FETCHes whose units are known. untimed-model.md:76–78 incorrectly declares fetched objects untimed until FETCH_OK properties lands. Joining/fill FETCH already takes its timescale from SUBSCRIBE_OK (subscriber.rs:2733–2746) and decodes object timestamps (2953–2970). Restrict the fallback to objects with neither known track units nor object-level units, and test preservation alongside absence so implementing this instruction does not erase valid timing.
  • P2: Plan an absence-capable PES carriage. ts-pes-untimed.md:19–25 promises a missing-PTS round-trip, but register_verbatim selects Legacy data framing, whose payload always includes a timestamp varint (hang frame.rs:85–90). Its decoder reads that payload time independently of moq-net metadata. Optional net timestamps alone cannot preserve absence. Include the payload/catalog compatibility decision and export scheduling for untimed data in this quest or a prerequisite; test importer → encoded track → exporter, including a real PTS of zero.

Verification: static plan/code/test review, including the latest date-only commit. I did not run quest check, Rust/JS tests or interop; quest, Nix, Cargo and Bun are unavailable here.

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The changes add quest plans for preserving absent timestamps in Rust and JavaScript models, encoding absence in lite-07, and handling PES packets without PTS in verbatim MPEG-TS tracks. Existing quest plans update their stated timestamp behavior and references. The previous combined untimed-objects plan is removed. These changes document planned work; they do not implement the described behavior.

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  • observed — Modified behavior in quest/m1/cache-wall-eviction.md: The plan now specifies that untimed groups are never media-stale and only pool expiry reclaims them, linking to the untimed-frame model quest.
  • observed — Modified behavior in quest/m1/cache-wall-eviction.md: The Related list now links to the untimed-frame model quest and notes that untimed groups are never media-stale.
  • observed — Modified behavior in quest/m1/data-consumer-timestamps.md: Updated the untimed-frame reference and wording: absence survives the wire rather than becoming arrival time, with the decision date retained.
  • observed — Modified behavior in quest/m1/data-consumer-timestamps.md: Replaced the required link to the untimed-objects plan with a link to the document about moq-net faithfully carrying untimed frames.
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Thanks for the review. I checked each finding against the code and agree with all three. They're addressed in ea150d0:

  • Successor bounds: confirmed. Only the live edge skips unstamped groups. reach and poll_first_start stop at the immediate successor, and an_unstamped_immediate_successor_leaves_reach_unbounded pins that. untimed-model now says to keep the bound unknown across an untimed successor, so the timed group before it is kept, and to cover tracks that mix timed and untimed groups.
  • FETCH timestamps: confirmed. A joining or fill FETCH takes its units from SUBSCRIBE_OK. The quest now limits untimed fetched objects to those with neither track nor object-level units (a standalone FETCH, until fetch-ok-properties lands), and asks for a test that known units still yield timestamps.
  • PES carriage: confirmed. Verbatim tracks ride the legacy container, whose payload always carries a timestamp. The importer also stamps the live edge rather than 0 (ts/import.rs:1234). Because the fix needs a container and catalog decision, the quest is now plan-ts-pes-untimed ("Plan: untimed verbatim PES" [S]). It weighs the carriage, export scheduling and which stream types it covers, and it carries the importer-to-exporter test, including a real PTS of 0.

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Reviewed commit: ea150d0 (delta from 201d65f; base unchanged).

The three prior P2 findings are addressed at the planning level:

No new actionable bugs found in this delta. The Rust/JS split and shared lite-07 change remain sensible; making PES a separate planning task correctly exposes the unresolved container contract.

Verification: static review of the changed plans against the previously inspected model, FETCH and Legacy-container code. I did not run quest validation, Rust/JS tests or interop; the required tooling is unavailable here.

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Merge summary for 5b86fc1:

  • Changes: the untimed-objects plan is replaced by four quests:

    • untimed-model [L], js-untimed-model [M] and lite-untimed [S], all on dev;
    • plan-ts-pes-untimed [S], a planning quest.

    The four timestamp quests now require only their language's model quest. cmaf-frame-timestamp and cache-wall-eviction each gain one line.

  • Reviews: all four findings were confirmed and folded in:

    • OpenAI's three: successor bounds, FETCH units, and PES carriage (which is now a plan quest).
    • CodeRabbit's one: object-level units on a standalone FETCH.

    The last commit only changes that one sentence after the reviews. CI is green on the previous head.

  • Decisions: listed in the description. The carriage for an untimed verbatim PES is left to the maintainer, in plan-ts-pes-untimed.

Public API / wire: none (quests only).

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Reviewed commit: 5b86fc1 (delta from ea150d0; base unchanged).

No new actionable bugs found. untimed-model.md:80–86 now explicitly preserves object-scoped timing on standalone FETCHes and requires tests for both track and object units. This resolves the contradictory standalone-FETCH sentence identified in the existing review; the direction remains consistent with faithful timestamp preservation. The earlier three planning findings remain addressed.

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Verdict: MERGE

Completes plan-untimed-objects into untimed-model [L], js-untimed-model [M], lite-untimed [S] on dev, plus plan-ts-pes-untimed [S]. Required lists, cross-links, and the OpenAI/CodeRabbit follow-ups (successor reach, FETCH units, PES carriage, object-scoped FETCH timestamps) check out against main.

Blocking

None.

Non-blocking

  1. Spell out the empty-vs-untimed split on group.timestamp()

    • On main, group state keeps timestamp: Option<Timestamp> meaning “no frame opened yet” (rs/moq-net/src/model/group.rs), and poll_timestamp readies on timestamp.is_some() || fin || abort. live_edge / reach / GroupExpiry all key off timestamp().
    • After untimed frames, a group that has written frames with None media time also has timestamp() == None, so “empty/open” and “presented but untimed” share one signal. The quest already says an untimed frame must still count as a frame for poll_timestamp / GroupExpiry, and that an untimed successor keeps reach unknown.
    • Suggestion: one sentence that presentation is keyed off frames written (e.g. next_index != offset / fin), while Option<Timestamp> stays media time only. That keeps start-at-latest, unknown reach, and “never media-stale” from fighting the same None.
  2. Mirror timescale + FETCH bullets in the JS quest

    • js-untimed-model.md defers semantics to the Rust quest. Fine for decisions, but JS has the same traps locally: Info.timescale is required with a MILLI default (js/net/src/track.ts infoDefaults), and IETF receive does frame.timestamp ?? Timestamp.now() (js/net/src/ietf/subscriber.ts).
    • Suggestion: copy the “don’t invent track timescale” and “FETCH keeps timestamps when track or object units are known” bullets into the JS quest so a JS-only implementer doesn’t miss them.
  3. CI

    • Check/Test still pending on this head at review time; prior head ea150d032 was green, and this tip is a one-sentence plan tweak. Docs-only, not a merge gate here.

Summary

Sensible split, accurate wiring to poll_timestamp / reach / IETF and lite receive fills / Legacy PES carriage, and prior review findings are folded. The two notes are plan clarity only; merge-ready as a quest PR.

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🟡 Minor · Account for TRACK_STATUS in standalone FETCH timing. · untimed-model.md:80-86

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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Account for TRACK_STATUS in standalone FETCH timing.

quest/m1/ietf-fetch-only.md applies TRACK_STATUS to every FETCH, not only to planned subscription work. Its response carries the same track properties as SUBSCRIBE_OK, including TIMESCALE. The current rule can therefore mark objects untimed even when standalone FETCH already supplied track units through TRACK_STATUS. State that the untimed case applies only when neither TRACK_STATUS nor FETCH_OK provides track units.

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- A standalone FETCH has no track units until
- [FETCH_OK properties](/quest/m1/fetch-ok-properties.md) lands, so until
- then only its objects with object-level units stay timed. Test that known
- units, from the track or the object, still yield timestamps, alongside the
- untimed cases.
+ A standalone FETCH gets track units from TRACK_STATUS sent in parallel with
+ the FETCH, or from [FETCH_OK properties](/quest/m1/fetch-ok-properties.md)
+ when that property path applies. Only objects with neither source of track
+ units nor object-level units are untimed. Test that known units, from the
+ track or the object, still yield timestamps, alongside the untimed cases.
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Review comment at @quest/m1/untimed-model.md around lines 80 - 86:
Update the standalone FETCH timing rule in the untimed-model discussion to
account for track units supplied by TRACK_STATUS as well as FETCH_OK. Mark
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Folded in the latest notes, in 0e2b069:

  • CodeRabbit, TRACK_STATUS: agreed. The FETCH bullet in untimed-model no longer names a single source. A FETCH learns track units from SUBSCRIBE_OK, TRACK_STATUS (ietf-fetch-only) or FETCH_OK properties, whichever applies, and only objects with neither track nor object-level units are untimed.
  • Grok 1, empty vs untimed: added. "Has presented" is keyed off frames written (or fin), and the group's Option<Timestamp> stays media time only, so an open group and a group of untimed frames don't share one None.
  • Grok 2, JS traps: added the timescale and FETCH bullets to js-untimed-model, so a JS-only implementer sees them without reading the Rust quest.

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🟡 Minor · Define the endpoint behavior before adopting the +1 encoding. · lite-untimed.md:10-15

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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Define the endpoint behavior before adopting the +1 encoding.

The draft accepts DATAGRAM Timestamp values through 2^64-1, and FRAME Timestamp Delta uses signed 64-bit zigzag encoding. The planned encoded + 1 mapping sends DATAGRAM Timestamp 2^64-1 to 2^64, which the 64-bit varint cannot represent. Delta -2^63 zigzags to 2^64-1 and has the same overflow. Wrapping either value can produce the absence marker 0.

Update the wire contract and this plan to reject these endpoints, or define a wider encoding with a distinct absence value.

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-Decided (2026-10-01, maintainer): shift the FRAME Timestamp Delta and the
-DATAGRAM Timestamp by one, so 0 means absent. An absent frame doesn't move
-the delta baseline. Rejected: a bare 0 as a sentinel, which collides with a
-real pts of 0.
+Decided (2026-10-01, maintainer): shift the FRAME Timestamp Delta and the
+DATAGRAM Timestamp by one, so 0 means absent. Before adopting this mapping,
+the wire contract must either reject DATAGRAM Timestamp 2^64-1 and FRAME
+Timestamp Delta -2^63, or define a wider encoding with a distinct absence
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Update the wire contract and Plan section describing the +1 Timestamp encoding
to define endpoint handling: either reject DATAGRAM Timestamp 2^64-1 and FRAME
Timestamp Delta -2^63, or specify a wider encoding with a distinct absence
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Review comments at @quest/m1/lite-untimed.md:
- Around line 10-15: Update the wire contract and Plan section describing the +1
Timestamp encoding to define endpoint handling: either reject DATAGRAM Timestamp
2^64-1 and FRAME Timestamp Delta -2^63, or specify a wider encoding with a
distinct absence value. Preserve the stated absent-frame baseline behavior and
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CodeRabbit, +1 endpoints: agreed. lite-07 varints carry the full 64 bits (lite draft, Variable-Length Integers), so a DATAGRAM Timestamp of 2^64-1, or a delta whose zigzag is 2^64-1, can't be shifted and would wrap to the absence marker. lite-untimed now flags this. It recommends the encoder refuse those values and the draft say so, rather than widening the encoding for timestamps no real track reaches. The 2026-10-01 encoding decision is unchanged. Fixed in the latest push.

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Reviewed commit: 18b7d93 (delta from 5b86fc1, including the intervening clarifications; base unchanged).

No new actionable bugs found. The refusal recommended in lite-untimed.md:30–34 correctly handles the existing review's endpoint concern: adding one to u64::MAX, including the zigzag representation of i64::MIN, cannot fit in the lite-07 wire field. Rejecting it avoids silently encoding absence and keeps the planned format simple. The prior planning findings remain addressed.

Verification: static review of the plan, current lite draft and Rust/JS codecs, plus independent integer arithmetic. The current Rust codec still has its documented narrower limit; this checks the planned wire contract. I did not run quest validation, package tests or interop.

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@Dryvnt Dryvnt changed the title quest: plan untimed frames as four implementation quests quest: plan untimed frames, and split the broadcast-clock input out of publish-timestamp Oct 2, 2026
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Added quest/m1/mux-data-timestamp.md [S, dev] to this PR. It splits the broadcast-clock input for the moq-mux data producers out of publish-timestamp, because that part needs neither untimed-model nor the FFI namespace move. publish-timestamp keeps the "None means untimed" half, requires the new quest first, and is resized to [M]. The decisions are in the description under "Split of publish-timestamp".

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Reviewed commit: 4d5ce38 (delta from 18b7d93; base unchanged).

No new actionable bugs found. The split in mux-data-timestamp.md:26–35 separates the broadcast-clock input API from the later change to None. Generic Timed conversions keep the existing bare-value binding calls compatible, so this work can proceed without the broader FFI/model changes.

The direction is sound: preserve the caller's timestamp, expose capture-time conversion explicitly, and guard delay sampling. For lines 39–41, the relevant comparison is against the current catalog clock; the shared estimator's signed lateness uses an arbitrary local epoch and valid samples can be negative. The stated sampling scope allows that distinction. Prior planning findings remain addressed.

Verification: static review of JSON/binary producers, Clock, Listing/Estimator, Timed conversions and binding callers, including the current dev-side clock handling. I did not run quest validation, package tests or interop; the required tooling is unavailable here.

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OpenAI, ahead-of-now comparison: agreed. "Clamp it where it is sampled" could be read as clamping the estimator's signed lateness, which would also distort valid negative samples measured from its local epoch. mux-data-timestamp now says to decide "ahead of now" against the catalog clock's current reading, and not to clamp the lateness itself. Fixed in the latest push.

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kixelated changed the base branch from release to main October 2, 2026 22:03
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Merged main into this branch (b492edc) and resolved the one conflict:

  • publish-timestamp.md: kept this PR's split (the broadcast-clock input lives in mux-data-timestamp) and took main's moq-binary to moq-flate rename.
  • Branch flip: dropped "on dev" from untimed-model, js-untimed-model, mux-data-timestamp and the m1 README, matching the post-flip sweep. Updated the description to say main.
  • mux-data-timestamp: clock::Lane and Anchor don't exist on main, so the Goal and Test now use main's wording: the source's own timestamp on a catalog clock anchored to that source.

All review findings are addressed, including the last one, the ahead-of-now comparison (23c9af5). quest check passes and CI is green. Enabling auto-merge.

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kixelated merged commit 91907e6 into moq-dev:main Oct 3, 2026
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