fix(moq-net): a standing refusal ends the front

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Completes quest/m0/wildcard/refusal-final.md.

A refusal from the winning route is now the request's answer, as the lite and cluster drafts already specify. Since #4741 the front instead recorded the refuser and re-selected, which could ask a sibling advertiser at the same prefix or fall through to a shorter one: one refusal turned into a request per candidate.

Changes

• Rust (rs/moq-net/src/model/front.rs): the Refusal { standing: true } arm ends the front with the refusal's error instead of pushing Reselect. That holds while another source still serves too, because the refusing route is the winner. The front's refused set becomes excluded, since only source_closed fills it now. It still keeps a standing route whose source just ended from being re-picked in a loop. best_route in origin.rs takes the renamed set, and nothing else in it changes.
• JS (js/net/src/origin.ts): refuse ends the slot whether or not another source serves. The per-slot refused set is gone, because refusals were its only use.
• Only the current winner's refusal is final. In Rust, run_front treats a rejection as standing only while that route is still best_route. A route that was retracted, or beaten while its request was pending, re-selects instead, including a retraction racing the request. JS refuse also ignores a route that a local broadcast superseded.
• Resume across routes that never refused is unchanged. Per-track refusal (redispatch) was already final.
• Drafts: draft-lcurley-moq-lite Resolution and draft-lcurley-moq-cluster Path Selection now say a refusal is not retried at another route of the same prefix either (apart from NO_CAPACITY's one re-resolution), not only that it never falls through to a less specific one.

Tests

• Rust: refusal_never_falls_through (new, in origin.rs). The longest prefix's cheapest advertiser refuses, and the request ends with NotFound. Neither a costlier sibling at that prefix nor the catch-all is asked.
• Rust front unit tests: the fall-through tests are rewritten to assert End. The refused_routes() assertions are split so they now check only the source-closed exclusion.
• JS: "a better route's refusal ends a served request" now also has a costlier sibling at the refusing prefix and checks that the sibling is never asked.
• Rust: superseded_refusal_does_not_end_the_request. A local broadcast is announced, and then the pending route rejects. The request resolves to the local broadcast.
• Rust: refusal_from_a_beaten_route_asks_the_new_winner. A more specific remote route appears, and then the pending route rejects. The new winner is asked.
• JS: "a refusal from a route a local broadcast superseded does not end the request".
• just check passes. just drafts check passes. just test interop --all: 32 pass. python -> js and go -> js fail, and they fail on main as well.

Public API / wire

• Public API: none. excluded_routes is pub(super).
• Wire: none. The behavior now matches draft-lcurley-moq-lite Resolution and draft-lcurley-moq-cluster.

Decision

While another source is serving and a better route is selected but refuses, the front ends. In Rust, live readers keep reading the spliced copies until those copies end. JS closes the materialized broadcast at once, as it already does when the serving route retracts. Decided in the 2026-10-05 audit: a refusal is final, with no keep-serving exception. The selection is deterministic, so a new request reaches the same winner and gets the same refusal anyway.

A winning route that cannot serve at all also ends the front with Unroutable, as an explicit refusal does. That covers a handler that dropped its request unanswered, and an entry with no live handler while its announcement still stands. A retracted route is not affected: it re-selects.

Follow-ups

• NO_CAPACITY's one re-resolution is implemented in neither language. JS forwards a winner's NoCapacity unchanged. The wildcard line already deletes NO_CAPACITY (decided 2026-10-03), so it needs no separate quest. When that line lands, it should also drop the drafts' new exception clause.
• An origin-level Rust test that live readers keep their spliced copies after a refusal ends the front. Today only the front.rs unit tests cover it.
• JS teardown parity: drain live readers of the materialized broadcast when a request ends, as Rust does, instead of closing it at once.
• best_route filters excluded before the tier test, so when the only longest-prefix route's source ends, the front can resume from a shorter prefix. Either keep resume inside the tier, or document a source ending as the exception. This predates this PR.

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Outcome: implemented, and left as a draft. I resumed this from an interrupted agent's uncommitted work, reviewed it, and kept it with one formatting fix to the wildcard README. just check passes. In interop, only python -> js and go -> js fail, and they already fail on main. The one open decision (end vs. pin when a better route refuses mid-serve) is in the description. I recommend ending.

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Walkthrough

Resolution text documents that the single NO_CAPACITY re-resolution may try another advertisement of the same prefix. In JavaScript and Rust, a standing refusal from the selected route now ends the request or front instead of triggering route fallback. JavaScript also ignores a refusal when a local broadcast has taken over. Rust records routes whose serving source closes as excluded from later route selection.

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The previously identified documentation and route-reselection issues are addressed; the change is mergeable after normal checks.

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Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 73698

The change limits unintended fallback and keeps refusal authority with the selected route. A terminal refusal affects all consumers sharing the affected request, but no security-boundary bypass was established. Concurrency and rollout behavior were not fully validated.

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Security Blast Radius

• inferred — One accepted refusal affects the shared request or front for that path, including consumers still using a previous source. An advertiser admitted to routing can repeat this outcome across covered paths where it wins selection. The evidence does not establish tenant-wide or deployment-wide exposure.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — Refusal authority is gated by route selection rather than granted to any responding advertiser. JavaScript ignores a refusal when another route wins or a local broadcast supersedes it. Rust rereads the eligible winner when classifying the refusal, so an already-visible replacement is respected even if its route-watch event has not yet been processed.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — JavaScript guards handler completion with both request identity and a completed flag. Signal notifications run in microtasks, preventing subscriber callbacks from synchronously creating a replacement slot midway through refusal teardown. Rust terminal publication preserves an existing request result and stops further front transitions.

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[P2] Ignore stale refusals after a local broadcast wins — js/net/src/origin.ts:482–486. bestEntry() only examines dynamic/received routes, whereas route() also checks localWins(). Repro sequence: request live/cam through a pending live dynamic; create and announce a local live/cam broadcast; then reject the old dynamic request. The slot has switched to the exact local broadcast, but this guard still accepts the broader entry's refusal and now clears the active broadcast and closes every request handle. Previously the serving branch kept the local source alive. Check localWins(path, entry) before accepting the refusal, and add a regression test asserting that the local handle remains active and the request stays open.

Direction: making the actual winning route's refusal terminal is coherent with the updated drafts and avoids sibling/catch-all request cascades. Preserving source-closed exclusions in Rust is appropriate; the JS supersession guard needs the fix above.

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Reviewed commit: 72d352e

The prior P2 is addressed: js/net/src/origin.ts:485–487 now ignores a refusal when localWins() says the local broadcast superseded that route, matching normal route selection. The regression at js/net/src/origin.test.ts:1566–1591 exercises the reported ordering and checks that the same local handle remains active and the request stays open. No new actionable findings in this one-commit, two-file delta.

Direction: the targeted guard preserves terminal refusals from the actual winner without letting a stale broader route terminate a local replacement. The overall refusal-final approach remains sound.

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Automated review: 72d352e7

This makes a standing refusal from the winning route end the request in both Rust and JS, and keeps excluded only for routes whose source ended. The state-machine change is small, and the new Rust and JS tests check that neither the sibling nor the catch-all gets asked. Now that a refusal ends the front, a couple of paths that used to be hidden by the reselect matter more.

Should fix

1. A retraction race now ends the front instead of failing over (rs/moq-net/src/model/origin.rs around L2378–L2425)
The Action::Request driver finds the entry under shared.read(), drops that lock, and only then locks server. AnnounceProducer::retract (around L2035) takes the shared lock, removes the entry, and sets server.closed = true in that window. The if serve.closed branch then reports Refusal { err: Unroutable, standing: true }, even though its own comment says it may be "retracted under us". Before this PR, that went to Reselect and the survivor was picked. Now it hits the new standing: true arm and the front ends with Unroutable. That happens during a relay withdrawal, which is exactly when a sibling at the same prefix should take over. The Err(_) branch at L2447 (no live handler) has the same shape.
Fix: compute standing the way Step::Resolved does at L2708 (shared.read().routes.covers(&path.as_path(), route)) instead of hard-coding true. Also add a front-level test where the route is retracted between selection and request.

2. On a refusal while serving, JS cuts live readers off right away, unlike Rust (js/net/src/origin.ts L489–L496)
While the better route is still pending, route() keeps returning cached.front, which is the old route's materialized broadcast. refuse now runs releaseMaterialized(path), which calls cached.front.close() on that still-serving broadcast, and it also clears slot.route. Rust's Action::End only retracts the broadcast (broadcast.close()), and in-flight tracks follow their copies to the end. The PR's Decision section says "Live readers keep reading the spliced copies until those copies end", which holds for Rust but doesn't appear to hold for JS. The rewritten JS test no longer checks before, so nothing pins down either behavior.
Fix: pick one behavior and test it in both languages. If draining is what you want, have JS stop handing out the front without closing the old materialized broadcast until its readers are gone.

Non-blocking

• A source that closes can still fall through to a shorter prefix (origin.rs L3381, pre-existing). best_route filters excluded before the peek() tier test. So when the only longest-prefix route's source ends, that tier looks empty and the front resumes from a catch-all. The updated lite text says "Only the most specific covering routes are consulted". If resume should stay inside the tier, move the excluded filter after the tier check, so an excluded-only tier yields None and the front ends Dropped. If falling back to the catch-all is intended (the quest's "any covering route still resumes it"), the drafts should say that a source ending is the exception.
• NO_CAPACITY's single re-resolution is still unimplemented. The drafts' new exception refers to it, but neither language does the one in-tier retry or remaps NO_CAPACITY before passing it downstream. Rust has no NoCapacity variant yet, so nothing regresses there. In JS, a remote StreamCode.NoCapacity refusal now ends the request and is forwarded unchanged, against lite L453's MUST. That's worth tracking as a follow-up quest if one doesn't already exist.
• CI was still pending on this head when I reviewed it.

Verdict: ITERATE. The retraction race (1) is a real failover regression, and the JS/Rust split in (2) contradicts the PR's own stated decision. Both fixes are small.

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Merge summary:

• Decision confirmed (maintainer, 2026-10-05 audit): a refusal from the winning route is final, including while another source serves. No keep-serving exception.
• Drafts: folded in the suggested follow-up. draft-lcurley-moq-lite Resolution and draft-lcurley-moq-cluster Path Selection now say a refusal is not retried at another route of the same prefix either, apart from NO_CAPACITY's one re-resolution. The lite-07 changelog entry says the same. just drafts check passes. When the wildcard line removes NO_CAPACITY, it should drop that exception clause too.
• Review [P2] (stale refusal after a local broadcast wins): agreed and fixed. refuse in js/net/src/origin.ts now also ignores the refusal when localWins(path, entry). The new regression test "a refusal from a route a local broadcast superseded does not end the request" fails without the guard. Rust already ignores it, because Front::resolved drops any answer not from the current upstream.
• Merged main in. just check passes.

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Re the automated review of 72d352e7:

1. Retraction race: agreed, and fixed in 0a29123. The serve.closed branch and the no-live-handler branch now derive standing from the table. A retraction removes the entry before it closes the server, under the same lock, so the check is reliable. I couldn't trigger the window deterministically in a test, because selection and request run in one synchronous step and the race needs another thread. The pending-request version of the race (CodeRabbit's) has a regression test.
2. JS closes live readers right away while Rust drains: this split is real, but it isn't new. JS already closes the materialized broadcast at once when the serving route retracts (route() calls releaseMaterialized). This PR adds the refusal case to that existing teardown. I corrected the description so the drain claim only covers Rust. Draining in JS would need refcounting of the materialized front, so I'm suggesting it as a follow-up and leaving it out of this PR.

• Non-blocking: I'm suggesting the excluded tier fall-through as a follow-up. That behavior predates this PR. NO_CAPACITY needs no follow-up, because the wildcard line already removes it (decided 2026-10-03), and that line should drop the drafts' new exception clause when it does.

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Automated re-review: 0a29123e (since 72d352e7)

This push is one commit. It fixes the retraction race from the last review and also tightens when a refusal counts as final: in run_front, a rejection is standing only while the refusing route is still the best_route. I checked the logic and found no new blocking issues.

Earlier findings

• 1. Retraction race ends the front: fixed. The serve.closed and no-live-handler branches (origin.rs L2425, L2455) now derive standing from routes.covers. I checked the ordering claim in the new comment, and it holds. retract (L2035) removes the entry and sets server.closed while it holds the shared lock. The driver releases the server lock before it calls shared.read(), so once it sees closed, the entry is already gone. A retraction then re-selects and a standing route whose handler died still ends. A request already in flight when its route retracts gets Unroutable drained into it. With the new best_route check, that request now re-selects too, and routed_broadcast_survives_serving_route_retraction already covers that path.
• 2. JS closes live readers right away, while Rust drains: acknowledged, deferred. The description now scopes the drain claim to Rust and lists JS draining as a follow-up. That's fine, since JS already tears down this way on retraction.
• Non-blocking items: the excluded tier fall-through is deferred as pre-existing, and NO_CAPACITY goes away with the wildcard line. Both are fine.

New in this push

• The Step::Resolved check (L2710) is a real improvement over the old !Unroutable || covers. A route that was beaten while its request was pending no longer ends the front with its stale answer. That's CodeRabbit's race. kio::wait polls the upstream before the table watch, so a refusal that's ready alongside a table change really does reach this check first. That means superseded_refusal_does_not_end_the_request tests the new code and not the Front::resolved upstream filter.
• The drafts edit is correct. The published draft-lcurley-moq-lite-06 says only that "a refusal never falls through", so restoring that wording in the -06 changelog entry, and putting the same-prefix rule in a new -07 bullet, keeps the history accurate.

Non-blocking

• Two predicates for one rule (origin.rs L2425/L2455 vs L2710). The request-time branches ask whether the route still covers the path, and the resolve-time branch asks whether it's still the best route. The difference only shows up when another thread adds a better route between select and the found lookup, and a dead handler then ends the front even though a better route now exists. That's a very narrow window, but a small standing(route) helper that uses the best_route == route form in all three places would keep one rule and make the comment at L2416 the only thing to reason about.
• The request-time fix has no regression test. That's understandable, since the window needs a second thread. A short comment on the serve.closed branch pointing at the retract ordering, or a loom-style test later, would stop someone from hard-coding true again.
• CI was still pending on this head when I reviewed it.

Verdict: MERGE (once CI is green). The blocking race is fixed correctly, and the JS drain difference is documented and tracked as a follow-up.

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Reviewed commit: 0a29123

No new actionable findings in the delta from 72d352e. Independently confirmed the fix for the existing Rust supersession finding: rs/moq-net/src/model/origin.rs:2707–2713 checks the current winner using the same horizon and exclusions as selection, so an obsolete rejection reselects. The regression at origin.rs:6877–6901 exercises a local announcement preceding the pending rejection. The changelog correction also addresses the existing review.

Direction: this is a focused improvement to the terminal-refusal design; current-winner refusals remain final while superseded requests can select their replacement. The previously reviewed JS local-winner fix is unchanged. The documented JS reader-draining and source-ended tier-selection follow-ups remain outside this delta.

Verification limits: inspected the complete one-commit, two-file delta and relevant selection/state-machine context; base unchanged. No local tests run; current-head CI was queued at review time.

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No new actionable findings in the one-file delta from 0a29123. rs/moq-net/src/model/origin.rs:2366–2374 centralizes the current-winner predicate, and the early request-failure paths at lines 2419, 2435 and 2465 now use it alongside asynchronous rejection handling. Both server-locked failure paths release serve before checking the table.

Direction: this usefully completes the supersession fix across synchronous and asynchronous refusals while preserving terminal refusal from the current winner.

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Automated review of c63547f5

This makes the winning route's refusal end the front in both Rust and JS, and it narrows "standing" to "still the current winner," so a refusal from a retracted or superseded route re-selects instead. The core change is small and well tested at the unit level, and the drafts and quest edits agree with it. I didn't find anything blocking.

Non-blocking

1. Paths where the route can't serve are now terminal too, not only real refusals. Every Unroutable that run_front synthesizes now goes through standing(&front, route). That covers no server on the entry (origin.rs:2414-2422), no live handler (2459-2468), and a Request dropped without an answer, where the queue closes and maps to Unroutable (2629-2631, 2716-2721). So when that route is the winner, the front now ends with Unroutable, even while another source is serving. On main, these paths excluded the route and re-selected. A handler task that gets cancelled or panics while holding a Request didn't give an answer, but it now kills a front that has a working source. If that's intended (handler_rejection_is_final already treats an explicit reject(Unroutable) as final), say so in the PR. If not, the source-closed treatment fits these cases better: insert into excluded and Reselect. Keep End for an explicit reject. The dropped-request case is already distinguishable at 2629, where it's Err(_closed) and not a handler-supplied error. A unit test for it would be: drop a queued Request while a broader route serves, and check that the front keeps serving.

2. Stale docs in front.rs. The Refusal::standing doc (front.rs:40-43) still says "Whether the route is still in the table," and the standing: false arm comment (334-335) still says "The route retracted before serving." Both now also cover "beaten while pending." Also, that arm overwrites last_err with Unroutable, so a superseded route's real error (for example NotFound) is lost if the front later ends unresolved. That's minor, but worth a comment.

3. NO_CAPACITY's one re-resolution is now implemented nowhere. The new draft sentences (lite line 436, cluster line 245) carve out NO_CAPACITY's single re-resolution, but neither implementation has it. Rust has no NoCapacity variant (error.rs:200 only reserves 0x30). JS refuse (origin.ts:482) ends the slot for any error, including StreamCode.NoCapacity, which JS's own Dynamic.requested() emits for a dropped request (origin.ts:1614). Before this PR, the path that ran while another source was serving at least re-selected. Now a NO_CAPACITY from the winner is terminal everywhere. If a relay forwards it downstream unchanged, that breaks the lite draft (lines 450-454) and the cluster draft (lines 251-252): a receiver that didn't re-resolve MUST reset downstream with a code other than NO_CAPACITY. That's fine as a follow-up, but it belongs in the Follow-ups list next to the JS teardown parity item.

4. Test gaps on the Rust origin side. The "ends even while another source serves" behavior is only tested in the front.rs unit tests. refusal_never_falls_through has no serving source. The Decision section claims live readers keep reading their spliced copies until those copies end, and that's untested at the origin level. Consider an origin test where a broad route serves an active track, a narrower route appears and rejects, and the test asserts that the request ends while the reader's track keeps delivering. Also, superseded_refusal_does_not_end_the_request only covers a local broadcast taking over. A cheaper remote route announced while the stale request is pending goes through the same best.id != route branch but has no Rust test. JS has one.

Cross-PR

• feat(net)!: negotiate publisher epochs as metadata #4817 (draft, "bare names follow their newest epoch") still uses slot.refused / bestEntry(target, (candidate) => slot.refused.has(candidate)) in js/net/src/origin.ts and front.refused_routes() in origin.rs. It will conflict and needs the rename to excluded_routes(), with the JS filter dropped.

CI was still pending when I reviewed this.

Verdict: MERGE (once CI is green). None of the above blocks it, though #1 deserves a deliberate yes or no.

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Automated re-review: f68a88b2 (since 0a29123e)

This push adds one real commit, c63547f5, plus a merge of origin/main. The merge only brings in main's unrelated js/net change, where request blindness is now counted instead of subscribed, and it doesn't touch refuse or the Rust front. The commit takes the earlier non-blocking suggestion and puts every route refusal behind a single standing(front, route) closure in run_front (rs/moq-net/src/model/origin.rs L2366), which asks whether best_route is still route. I found no new issues.

Earlier findings

• Two predicates for one rule: fixed. The no-server branch (L2419, which used to hard-code true), the serve.closed branch (L2435), the no-live-handler branch (L2465), and the resolve-time rejection (L2720) all now use the same check. The found-missing branch still passes false, which is correct because the entry is gone. I checked lock ordering. Every call happens after the found read guard's scope ends, and each server.lock() site calls drop(serve) first, so the closure's shared.read() is never nested inside another lock. It passes front.excluded_routes() just as select does, so the request-time check and the selection agree.
• No regression test for the request-time race: still open, and that's fine. The serve.closed comment now spells out the "removed from the table before close, under the same lock" ordering, which was the cheaper half of that suggestion. A later loom-style test is still a nice-to-have.
• JS drain parity and the excluded tier fall-through are still tracked as follow-ups in the description, and nothing changed there.

Non-blocking

• CI was still pending on this head when I reviewed it.

Verdict: MERGE (once CI is green).

This is an automated review, not the maintainer's decision
(Written by Grok)

[kixelated]

Re the automated review of c63547f5:

1. Unanswered or handler-less routes are terminal: yes, this is intended. A winning route that cannot serve is the path's answer, just like an explicit refusal. Excluding it and re-selecting would ask the next candidate, which is the cascade the 2026-10-05 decision rules out. It would also treat a broken handler more gently than an honest reject. A route whose session went away retracts, and a retracted route re-selects. I added this to the description's Decision section.
2. Stale docs: fixed in 736982a. Refusal::standing and the standing: false arm now describe the current-winner rule. The arm also explains why it reports Unroutable: the beaten route's own error is moot.
3. NO_CAPACITY: added to Follow-ups. The wildcard line already deletes it.
4. Test gaps: added refusal_from_a_beaten_route_asks_the_new_winner, which covers the remote supersede case and fails without the fix. I listed the origin-level drain test as a follow-up.

• feat(net)!: negotiate publisher epochs as metadata #4817: noted. It needs the excluded_routes() rename, and its JS filter drops out, when it rebases.

(Written by Claude Opus 5.5)

[kixelated]

Automated re-review: 736982a5 (since f68a88b2)

This push is one commit. It adds a regression test, refusal_from_a_beaten_route_asks_the_new_winner (rs/moq-net/src/model/origin.rs L6910), and rewords the Refusal::standing doc and the standing: false arm in front.rs to say "retracted or beaten". The comments now match what standing() actually checks (is best_route still this route), and there are no logic changes. I found no new issues.

The new test

It covers the remote-route half of the 0a29123e fix: a room route is asked, a more specific room/alice route arrives, and then room rejects. I checked that it hits the branch it's named for. dynamic("room/alice") and reject happen with no yield between them, and run_front's wait polls the upstream resolution (L2620) before the table watch (L2680). So the rejection is classified first, standing() sees room/alice as the best route and returns false, and the front reselects instead of taking the early return in Front::resolved for an upstream that selected already replaced. Without the fix it would end with NotFound, so the test does guard the regression.

Non-blocking

• The test depends on poll order without saying so. If the table watch were ever polled before the resolution, selected would switch upstream to the winner first, the stale refusal would be dropped by the upstream.route == route filter, and the test would still pass without touching the standing check. A one-line comment pinning that ordering would keep the test honest, and so would an assertion that the refusal was classified as not standing.
• It never checks that the beaten route isn't asked again. The neighboring NotFound test asserts poll_requested_broadcast(..).is_pending() on the other routes. Doing the same on stale after the accept would also catch a reselect that bounces back to it.
• Earlier follow-ups are unchanged: the loom-style test for the request-time race, JS drain parity, and the excluded tier fall-through are still tracked as follow-ups.
• CI (Android, WASM, Windows, macOS, Replay) was still pending on this head when I reviewed it.

Verdict: MERGE (once CI is green).

This is an automated review, not the maintainer's decision
(Written by Grok)