quest: triage Fastly's moq-relay-interop report

[kixelated]

Plans the follow-ups from Fastly's moq-relay-interop report on moq-relay (run of 2026-09-23, build 7ee2b02), after checking each item against current main.

Already fixed or not a bug on main

• 5, moqx d18 SETUP: fixed by feat(net): negotiate the cluster extension with HOP_ID #3747.
• 9, 404 not-found: never sent. Not-found maps to DOES_NOT_EXIST. RENDEZVOUS_TIMEOUT is already covered by quest/m2/ietf-request-codes.md.
• 11, UNSUBSCRIBE upstream: the upstream subscription is cancelled once demand is gone (poll_unused). Only the cache lingers.
• 14, error code: the empty join is INVALID_RANGE (quest(moxygen): Moxygen compatibility #4253). The missing Largest is still a gap, planned below.
• 4, 0x40B5A: the report has the mechanism backwards (peers without SOLICIT get the unsolicited pushes), but their SUBSCRIBE_NAMESPACE stream is empty, which is real and planned below.
• 12, Docker image: published per release by design.

New quests

m0, ahead of Seattle:

• ietf-params-per-draft [M]: per-draft parameter audit, with FORWARD on d16 SUBSCRIBE_NAMESPACE (item 6).
• ietf-end-of-track-location [S]: forward END_OF_TRACK at the upstream's Location on the last group's stream, not at the next group's object 0 (item 1; PUBLISH_DONE was already right, fix(net): deliver a Rust track's tail up to its declared end #4116, fix(net): end an IETF subscription from its PUBLISH_DONE #4083, fix(net): reject undeclared subscription ends #4231).
• ietf-namespace-stream [S]: NAMESPACE on every d16+ SUBSCRIBE_NAMESPACE stream (item 4).
• dial-split-horizon [S]: a per-connection hop for dialed anonymous sessions (items 3 and 13's echo).
• ietf-d14-root-prefix [XS]: no empty d14 prefix, and docs to scope a d14 link to moxygen, which pushes no namespaces unasked (item 2).
• ietf-end-of-group-status [XS]: accept an End of Group status on a stream whose header already marks the end (imquic, Fastly's follow-up).
• ietf-first-object-zero [XS]: accept a FIRST_OBJECT-clear subgroup that starts at object 0 (item 7).

m1:

• ietf-cold-largest [M]: a cold relay reports its upstream's Largest (item 14).
• ietf-deviations-doc [XS]: document the deliberate deviations: fan-in across publishers, dropped object properties, OK before an old lite source answers (items 8, 10 and 13's fan-in).

Decision prompts

Goal

• ✅ Violations + loops (fix confirmed spec violations and loop/echo failures; document deliberate deviations)
• Violations only
• Everything in the report
• Top cells only

Echo loop (items 3, 13-echo)

• ✅ Hop in moq-net Client
• Only on relay dials
• Leave to ietf-cluster-peers

Cold join (item 14)

• ✅ Carry upstream Largest
• Leave as INVALID_RANGE

Image (item 12)

• ✅ Keep per release
• Push a :main tag

Reply to Fastly

• ✅ Draft it in chat
• No reply

Namespaces (item 4)

• ✅ Always fill the stream (d16+, keep unsolicited pushes)
• Solicited-only on d16+
• d18+ only

Params (item 6)

• ✅ Audit per draft
• Just FORWARD

d14 prefix (item 2)

• Skip + refusal fails link
• ✅ Skip only, then narrowed: document the moxygen d14 gap (Fastly's pcap runs)
• Require a scope on d14

FIRST_OBJECT (item 7)

• Keep, document
• ✅ Accept when first ID is 0

Milestone

• ✅ m0, cold edge in m1
• All in m1
• All in m0

Structure

• Questline
• ✅ Flat quests

Public API: none. Wire: none (plans only).

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The changes update the m0 and m1 quest lists and add planning documents for IETF interop work. The m0 documents cover draft-specific parameters, namespace subscriptions, dialed-session routing, draft-14 empty prefixes, stream-ending behavior, and subgroup object IDs. The m1 documents cover cold-relay Largest behavior and documentation of three relay deviations. These changes document proposed work; they do not implement the described behavior.

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[kixelated]

Grok review of 21dc5b9f (quest/docs only)

I checked the quests' code claims against main. Most of them hold: exclude() at ietf/publisher.rs:445, the random assigned_hop at server.rs:231/381/417, Client::with_peer_hop at client.rs:128 with no call in moq-relay/src/cluster.rs (run_remote_session at 1681), the decode_params! call-site list, the declared.solicit match at publisher.rs:2184, subscribe_prefixes at subscriber.rs:600, the "no head" drop at subscriber.rs:2612, live_edge at publisher.rs:663/717 with (Filter::NextObject, None) => Joined::Empty at 693, and start_at at subscriber.rs:2013. Every Related and coordination link resolves. Two plans would steer the implementer wrong, though.

Should fix (in the plans)

1. ietf-params-per-draft: the draft-14 unknown-parameter rule is wrong, and the "already skips" fact only covers part of d14. The Goal says an unknown key closes the session with PROTOCOL_VIOLATION on every draft from 14 to 22. But d14 §9.2 has the receiver ignore unrecognized parameters (that's the reason given in the Parameters::skip rustdoc, parameters.rs ~166-172), and d14 SUBSCRIBE/FETCH/PUBLISH already follow that rule. The plan's fact "Draft-14 already skips unknown parameters" is also only partly true. d14 SUBSCRIBE_NAMESPACE goes through the legacy decode in subscribe_namespace.rs (~141, which covers d14 to d17), and so do PUBLISH_NAMESPACE and the request*.rs messages. All of those use decode_params!, so on d14 they refuse unknown keys today, against the draft. test_param_unknown_rejected (parameters.rs ~950) asserts that refusal for Draft14 and Draft15. Suggested fix: treat d14 as "ignore every unknown or misplaced parameter", check what d15 says, and list the d14 messages still on decode_params! as gaps for the audit. Separately, "ignored on drafts 14 to 17" for a misplaced known parameter only cites d16. Please add the d17 section, or narrow the claim.

2. dial-split-horizon: deleting with_peer_hop throws away a feature a random hop can't replace. The rustdoc at client.rs ~109-127 says that pinning a hop makes every session dialing the same relay resolve to one route, so advertisements can splice and survive a restart in place. A random per-connection hop changes on every redial (cluster dials use with_reconnect(true), cluster.rs:1724), so it fixes the echo but can't do that job. The API impact is also bigger than "possibly removes Client::with_peer_hop". moq_tokio::Client::with_peer_hop (rs/moq-tokio/src/client.rs:235) wraps it, and the server.rs:731 rustdoc links to it, so deleting it is a breaking change in moq-tokio too. Suggested fix: keep with_peer_hop as an explicit override on top of the new random default (exclude() already prefers the declared identity, then the assigned hop), and drop the "delete it if not" line. A test where a redialed anonymous peer's routes don't pile up across hops would be worth adding next to the echo test.

Non-blocking

3. ietf-namespace-stream: the standard.md citation. Lines 100-106 and 141-144 don't describe an empty stream. They say solicit makes announcements opt-in and that we announce unsolicited and also ask, and both stay true after this change. Say what the doc should gain instead: non-SOLICIT d16+ peers now also get NAMESPACE on the stream, and they hear each namespace twice.
4. ietf-first-object-zero: possibly a smaller fix. next_object_id(prior, delta, start) (subscriber.rs ~6757) already refuses a first ID other than start (0 for a whole group), and open_group already peeks the first object. Check whether letting a clear-bit stream through to that check is enough, instead of adding a second peek. The "first ID 3 is still dropped" test then covers that path.
5. PR body: item 4 is listed under "already fixed or not a bug" ("the report has it backwards") and also as the new ietf-namespace-stream quest. One line saying the report got the mechanism backwards but the empty stream is real would avoid confusion.

Cross-PR: the m0 README hunk sits next to the Expiry wakes line, which #5005 and #5010 also touch, and the m1 README index is touched by about ten open PRs. Expect routine index conflicts.

CI (Check, Test) was still queued at review time.

Verdict: ITERATE. These are wording fixes to two plans before someone implements them: the d14 parameter rule, and keeping with_peer_hop.

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[kixelated]

Addressed the Grok review of 21dc5b9f in ee71215c:

1. ietf-params-per-draft: checked the draft text. d14 and d15 §9.2 ignore unknown and misplaced parameters; d16 closes on unknown and ignores misplaced; d17 §9.3/§9.3.1 closes on both. The Goal and facts now say that, the legacy d14 decode_params! decodes are listed as gaps (with test_param_unknown_rejected), and the standard.md line claiming every undefined parameter closes the session is flagged for correction.
2. dial-split-horizon: with_peer_hop stays as an explicit override of the new random default, matching the server side. Public API is now none. Added the redial pile-up check.
3. ietf-namespace-stream: the doc note now says what standard.md should gain.
4. ietf-first-object-zero: the plan now checks whether next_object_id alone is enough before adding a peek.
5. PR body: item 4 now says the mechanism was backwards but the empty stream is real.

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[kixelated]

Grok follow-up review of ee71215c (re-review after push; quest/docs only)

One commit since 21dc5b9f that rewrites four plans. I re-checked the new claims against the draft text and main.

Fixed

1. ietf-params-per-draft: the per-draft rules now match the drafts. d14 and d15 §9.2 do say "Receivers ignore unrecognized parameters", and their §9.2.1 ignores a misplaced one. d16 §9.2 closes on an unknown key while §9.2.2 ignores a misplaced one. d17 §9.3 closes on unknown and §9.3.1 closes on misplaced. The fact section now names the legacy d14 to d17 decode_params! paths as gaps, and test_param_unknown_rejected (parameters.rs:951) does assert refusal on Draft14 and Draft15 today. The new line about doc/concept/standard.md is right too: lines 97-99 say an undefined parameter "still closes the session ... as the draft requires", which is wrong on d14 and d15.
2. dial-split-horizon: it keeps with_peer_hop as an override, says why, adds the redial pile-up test, and drops the API impact to none. "As the server side does" holds: Handshake::with_peer_hop (server.rs:739) overrides the random assigned_hop (rustdoc at 443-446).
3. ietf-namespace-stream: the standard.md note now says what the doc should gain (non-SOLICIT d16+ peers hear each namespace twice).
4. ietf-first-object-zero: it now checks whether next_object_id alone is enough before adding a second peek.
5. The PR body already explains item 4 ("the report has the mechanism backwards ... but their SUBSCRIBE_NAMESPACE stream is empty, which is real").

Non-blocking

• quest/m0/ietf-params-per-draft.md:41 is an unwrapped 114-character line ("...asserts that). Those are gaps. Accepting FORWARD=0..."). Please reflow it.

I found no new issues. The cross-PR note still applies: expect routine README index conflicts with #5005, #5010 and the other m1 quest PRs. CI (Check, Test) was still pending at review time.

Verdict: MERGE once CI is green.

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[kixelated]

Grok follow-up review of f053b40a (re-review after the push from 21dc5b9f; quest/docs only)

The two commits since the last review are plan edits that answer that review. I re-checked the new claims against the draft texts and main.

Fixed

1. ietf-params-per-draft: the per-draft rules are now right. d14 and d15 §9.2 say "Receivers ignore unrecognized parameters", d16 §9.2 and d17 §9.3 close on an unknown key, d16 §9.2.2 ignores a misplaced one, and d17 §9.3.1 closes on it. I checked each against the draft text. The plan also lists the d14/d15 decode_params! paths as gaps (citing test_param_unknown_rejected), and it now asks for the doc/concept/standard.md line that says an undefined parameter always closes the session (lines 96-98 on main) to be corrected. Both of those are accurate.
2. dial-split-horizon: it keeps with_peer_hop as an override of the random default, says why, and drops the API change. "As the server side does" holds, since the server-side handshake has its own with_peer_hop (server.rs:739) on top of assigned_hop: Hop::random(). The redial test I suggested is in.
3. ietf-namespace-stream: the standard.md note now says what the doc should gain (non-SOLICIT d16+ peers get NAMESPACE on the stream and hear each namespace twice).
4. ietf-first-object-zero: it now asks the implementer to check whether next_object_id alone is enough before adding a second peek.
5. PR body: item 4 now says the report got the mechanism backwards but the empty stream is real.

Nit (optional)

• The misplaced-parameter citation names only "§9.2.2" for d14, d15 and d16. In d14 and d15 that rule is in §9.2.1 (Version Specific Parameters), and §9.2.2 is d16 only.

No new issues. CI (Check, Test) was still queued at review time. The cross-PR note about index conflicts in the m0 and m1 READMEs still applies.

Verdict: MERGE.

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[kixelated]

Automated review by review (OpenAI)

Reviewed commit: f053b40

No new actionable correctness finding in the ten-file triage plan. The anonymous-client split-horizon gap is supported by rs/moq-net/src/client.rs:109–158, and ietf/publisher.rs:2180–2189 confirms the non-SOLICIT empty-stream behavior. The revised plans preserve with_peer_hop overrides, separate the draft-14/15, draft-16 and draft-17+ parameter rules, and keep the object-zero leniency distinct from the normative FIRST_OBJECT requirement.

Direction: appropriately separates interoperability fixes from the cold-relay Largest enhancement and documented deviations. Existing review corrections are incorporated; the remaining section-number nit is already discussed. These plans do not establish that the protocol fixes have shipped.

Verification: GitHub-only static diff, relevant source and discussion review. No builds, tests, benchmarks or external-peer runs executed. Open state, exact head and prior reviews rechecked before posting.

[kixelated]

Grok follow-up review of 604abecf (quest/docs only; re-review after the push of ee71215c and f053b40a, the main merge left out)

Both should-fix items from the review of 21dc5b9f are fixed, and so are the three non-blocking ones.

• Fixed (1), ietf-params-per-draft: the rules now match the drafts. I checked the text: d15 §9.2 says "Receivers ignore unrecognized parameters" and its §9.2.1 ignores a misplaced one; d16 closes on an unknown Message Parameter but ignores a misplaced one (§9.2.2); d17 §9.3 closes on unknown and §9.3.1 closes on misplaced. The legacy decode_params! gaps and the standard.md correction (line ~96-98 really does say an undefined parameter always closes) are now in the plan.
• Fixed (2), dial-split-horizon: with_peer_hop is kept as an override of the random default, which does mirror Handshake::with_peer_hop on the server (server.rs:739 replaces the random assigned_hop). The redial pile-up test was added, and the API line now says none.
• Fixed (3, 4, 5): the standard.md note says what to add, ietf-first-object-zero checks next_object_id before a second peek, and the PR body now explains item 4.

Non-blocking

1. ietf-params-per-draft: the d15 gap list is short by three messages. The plan says Parameters::skip covers d14 SUBSCRIBE, FETCH and PUBLISH, and that the legacy SUBSCRIBE_NAMESPACE, PUBLISH_NAMESPACE and request*.rs decodes are the gaps. But skip is d14-only in those three files too. d15 SUBSCRIBE goes to decode_params! (subscribe.rs ~65 vs ~91), and so do d15 FETCH (fetch.rs ~196 vs ~203) and d15 PUBLISH (publish.rs ~306 vs ~338). So on d15 they also refuse unknown keys, against §9.2. The audit would probably find this anyway, but please add "d15 SUBSCRIBE, FETCH and PUBLISH (and their OKs)" to the gap list so nobody reads the three as already done. Tiny nit while you're there: the misplaced-parameter section is §9.2.1 in d15, not §9.2.2.

CI (Check, Test) was still pending at review time.

Verdict: MERGE once CI is green.

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

[kixelated]

Grok follow-up review of bd8e9a3b (quest/docs only; re-review after the push from 604abecf)

One commit that reworks two plans: ietf-namespace-stream now honors d16/d17 Subscribe Options, and ietf-cold-largest reports the max of the upstream's Largest and what the relay has received. I checked the new claims against the draft texts and main. They hold: d16 §9.25 and d17 §9.20 define PUBLISH (0x00), NAMESPACE (0x01) and both (0x02); d18 dropped the field when SUBSCRIBE_TRACKS split off; SubscribeNamespaceLegacy::subscribe_options is decoded (subscribe_namespace.rs ~135) and js/net decodes subscribeOptions (subscribe_namespace.ts ~143), but nothing in ietf/publisher.rs or the JS publisher reads either one. The quoted "A relay MUST set LARGEST_OBJECT to the largest of" is word for word in d18 §10.2.11 and d19 §10.2.16, and I found no such rule in d14 to d17.

Non-blocking

1. ietf-namespace-stream: refusing 0x02 would turn a request that works today into an error. Today the options are ignored, so a d16/d17 peer asking for both gets REQUEST_OK and the unsolicited pushes. Under the recommended "refuse 0x00 and 0x02", that peer's SUBSCRIBE_NAMESPACE fails, and it loses the NAMESPACE messages this quest is adding for it. Since we never send PUBLISH for a namespace subscription, answering 0x02 with NAMESPACE only looks the same on the wire as a publisher with no matching tracks, which d16 §9.25 allows ("any matching PUBLISH messages ... will be sent"). Suggested: answer 0x02 as NAMESPACE-only, and keep the loud refusal for 0x00 alone, where a peer asked only for something we never send. While you're there, say what happens to a value above 0x02 (neither draft defines one). PROTOCOL_VIOLATION or REQUEST_ERROR both fit, but the test list should include one.
2. ietf-cold-largest: the d18/d19 rule names three upstream sources, and the plan only wires one. The quoted MUST takes the max of LARGEST_OBJECT from the upstream's SUBSCRIBE_OK, PUBLISH, or REQUEST_UPDATE_OK, plus objects received. The plan's bullets only cover the SUBSCRIBE_OK path (subscriber.rs ~2013). But subscriber.rs ~1040 also accepts an inbound PUBLISH (run_publish_stream), which carries its own Largest. Please add the PUBLISH path, and REQUEST_UPDATE_OK if we read it, or say why it's left out. Also, the per-subscription held.largest (subscriber.rs ~2022) already stores the upstream SUBSCRIBE_OK Largest for the fill logic, so that's the natural place to start carrying it into the model.
3. Still open from the review of 604abecf: the ietf-params-per-draft gap list (lines ~37-41) still says Parameters::skip covers d14 SUBSCRIBE, FETCH and PUBLISH without listing their d15 decodes, which go through decode_params! and refuse unknown keys against d15 §9.2. A small new inconsistency in the same file: line ~43-45 says FORWARD on a d16 SUBSCRIBE_NAMESPACE can be accepted and ignored "(Subscribe Options 0x01)". With the namespace-stream quest, a peer may now send 0x00 or 0x02, so the reason should be "we send no PUBLISH for a namespace subscription", not the option value.

CI (Check, Test) was still pending at review time.

Verdict: MERGE once CI is green. The 0x02 recommendation is worth flipping before someone implements it.

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[zshenker]

Thanks for the careful triage. We re-checked each "already fixed or not a bug" item against our runs of 2026-10-07 on 0f310a5 (and 07127f8 for T4). Most hold. One doesn't quite, and two corrections are on our side.

Confirmed fixed

• 11, UNSUBSCRIBE upstream: pcap reruns on d14 and d16, QUIC and WebTransport. A downstream moq-dev now sends UNSUBSCRIBE to its upstream, and the upstream answers PUBLISH_DONE. Four or five data streams cross the hop, against about 29 when the downstream is moq-rs. We've made the finding moq-rs-only.
• 14, refusal code: a cold moq-dev edge now answers INVALID_RANGE, "no objects at subscription start". Agreed that the remaining gap is the missing Largest.
• 9, error code: not-found goes out as 0x10. The 404 we reported came from the published moqdev/moq-relay:latest image (sha256:3302517b…), not from main. RENDEZVOUS_TIMEOUT is still answered at once; noted that it's planned in ietf-request-codes.
• 5: agreed, already marked fixed on our side.

Not fully fixed: 1, End of Track
PUBLISH_DONE is now right (TRACK_ENDED, with the real stream count). But the status object's Location changes on the way through. The publisher ends the track with End of Track at 5/5, on group 5's stream, after objects 0–4. The subscriber receives End of Track at 6/0, in a new group on a seventh stream, and never sees 5/5. This shows on d18 and d21 in T0, T1, T2 and T8 (status-end-of-track, publish-done). d18 defines End of Track as "no objects with the location that is equal to or greater than the one specified exist". At 6/0 it no longer says that group 5 ended after object 4. Could this go into one of the quests? Forwarding the status at its original Location on the last group's stream would fix it.

Our corrections

• 4: you're right, we had the 0x40B5A direction backwards. Non-SOLICIT peers get the unsolicited pushes and an empty stream. We've fixed the report.
• 7: you're right, d18 §2.2 requires FIRST_OBJECT from the original publisher, so our earlier probe was out of spec. The leniency in ietf-first-object-zero is welcome but not needed for conformance. We've reworded the item.
• 6: we haven't independently confirmed the EXPIRES fix (fix(net): accept EXPIRES in SUBSCRIBE_OK, PUBLISH_OK, and REQUEST_OK #4195), because our probe now leaves out default-valued parameters. We'll confirm it. The per-draft rules in ietf-params-per-draft are more precise than our "skip unknown" suggestion, and the report now uses them.

One question on ietf-d14-root-prefix
"Skip only" relies on the upstream pushing PUBLISH_NAMESPACE without being asked. We haven't yet checked whether moxygen and moqx do that on d14 for a peer that never sent SUBSCRIBE_NAMESPACE. If they don't, a moq-dev downstream of them still learns no namespaces, and its subscribes still fail with "Broadcast not found". We'll check and report back.

When dial-split-horizon, ietf-namespace-stream and ietf-d14-root-prefix land, we can rerun the affected cells (T1, T3, T4 and T6 with moxygen, moqx and moq-rs) and post the results.

[zshenker]

Follow-up on the three open points from our earlier comment (runs on 0f310a5, 2026-10-07):

• EXPIRES (fix(net): accept EXPIRES in SUBSCRIBE_OK, PUBLISH_OK, and REQUEST_OK #4195): confirmed. A new scenario sends EXPIRES = 0 in SUBSCRIBE_OK. It passes at T0 on d14 through d21, over QUIC, WebTransport and qmux.
• ietf-d14-root-prefix: skipping the empty prefix alone won't be enough against moxygen. In pcap runs, moxygen sent no PUBLISH_NAMESPACE on d14 to a downstream that hadn't subscribed. That held both with moq-dev downstream (after its root SUBSCRIBE_NAMESPACE was refused) and with moxygen downstream (which never subscribes). So a moq-dev downstream of moxygen would still learn no namespaces. Subscribing per prefix as subscribers arrive, or routing an unknown SUBSCRIBE to the upstream, would cover it. moqx no longer speaks d14, so moxygen is the only peer affected.
• One item your triage didn't cover: with imquic upstream (d16, d18, d21), moq-dev refuses an End of Group status object on a subgroup stream whose header has END_OF_GROUP (subscriber.rs:4049-4057, status == END_OF_GROUP && !self.has_end, else Unsupported). imquic sets that bit on every stream it relays and still sends the status. moq-dev then fetches the rest of each group upstream and resets the subscriber's stream, so each group's last object (x/5) is lost. d16 §10.4.2 says the bit only lets the subscriber infer the end at FIN, and nothing forbids the status object as well. Accepting status 3 either way, as is already done for End of Track, would fix it.

[kixelated]

Thanks for the rerun and the corrections.

1, End of Track: confirmed. The relay's ingress finishes group 5 before it records that the track ends, and its egress always writes its own END_OF_TRACK at the next group's object 0 on a new stream. That is where 6/0 comes from. Added ietf-end-of-track-location to m0 (ahead of Seattle), with the fix you suggested: the ingress records the end first, and the egress appends END_OF_TRACK at the upstream's Location on the last group's stream. It falls back to N/0 only when that stream has already closed, such as when a publisher calls finish after its last group. js/net gets the same change.

ietf-d14-root-prefix: fair point. It relies on unsolicited PUBLISH_NAMESPACE, so your moxygen/moqx check decides whether "skip only" is enough. If they don't push on d14, we'll revisit the scope option for d14.

A rerun of T1, T3, T4 and T6 once those quests land would be great.

(Written by Claude Opus 5.5)

[kixelated]

Grok follow-up review of 4c737fbc (quest/docs only; re-review after the push from bd8e9a3b)

One commit since bd8e9a3b: it adds quest/m0/ietf-end-of-track-location.md for Fastly's End of Track rerun and updates the m0 README. The root cause holds on main. Ingress Ended::Track finishes the group, then calls end_track(group + 1) (subscriber.rs:2688-2690). Egress write_end_of_track always opens its own stream at end/0 (publisher.rs:2492), after every group stream has closed (publisher.rs:757-764). js/net mirrors both: #runEndOfTrack runs after Promise.all(groups) (publisher.ts:566-578), and ingress calls producer.close() before track.finishAt (subscriber.ts:1112-1118). The "six fixes below LOCATION_FILTER" count is right.

Should fix (in the plans)

1. ietf-end-of-track-location: don't append END_OF_TRACK to a capped group stream. The egress plan (lines 26-30) appends the marker at "(group, next object ID)" when final_sequence() is group + 1. But a subscription whose end Location falls inside the last group serves a capped slice (GroupSlice::until, publisher.rs:2532, group.end_at(...) at 2701). TrackServe::end() still returns the end in that case (2480-2484), so the plan would write END_OF_TRACK at (5, until) and claim objects past the cap don't exist. The append should only happen when the stream reached the group's real end (until is None and the group finished, not aborted or expired). Otherwise keep the standalone N/0 marker. Please add that case to the test list. Related, on main today: that capped stream's header still sets the END_OF_GROUP bit (..Default::default() with has_end: true, publisher.rs:2552 and group.rs:271). That looks like the same false claim already on the wire, and it's worth fixing in the same pass.
2. ietf-d14-root-prefix: Fastly has already answered the open question, and the answer goes against "skip only". Their second comment (#issuecomment-6046932019) says that in pcap runs, moxygen sent no PUBLISH_NAMESPACE on d14 to a downstream that hadn't subscribed, and that moqx no longer speaks d14. The quest still says "rely on the peer's unsolicited PUBLISH_NAMESPACE", and the 21:46 reply treats the check as pending. So against the one affected peer, the plan as written still leaves every subscribe at "Broadcast not found". Either pick one of the fallbacks they suggest (subscribe per prefix as subscribers arrive, or route an unknown SUBSCRIBE upstream), or narrow the Goal to "stop sending a forbidden message" and say discovery from moxygen on d14 stays broken.

Non-blocking

3. ietf-end-of-track-location lines 15-18: the reason given is inaccurate. END_OF_GROUP isn't gone on d16+. d16 and d18 both still define object status 0x3 End of Group, and the subgroup header's END_OF_GROUP bit (0x08) lets a subscriber infer the group's last object at FIN. Our publisher sets that bit by default. So a subscriber already learns that group 5 ended after object 4. The real reasons are conformance with the upstream's Location (Fastly's cells) and one stream fewer. Please reword so the implementer doesn't rely on a false premise.
4. Untriaged item from the same Fastly comment: imquic's End of Group status. subscriber.rs:3992 accepts status 0x3 only when the header lacks END_OF_GROUP and otherwise returns Unsupported. imquic sets the bit and also sends the status on d16/d18/d21, so each group's last object is lost. d18's 0x3 definition doesn't forbid sending both. It's a small fix: accept 0x3 either way, as END_OF_TRACK already is. It isn't in any quest or in the reply yet.
5. Ingress order detail: once end_track runs before producer.finish(), a ProtocolViolation return would leave the group producer unfinished. Abort it on that path.
6. Nit: quest/m0/README.md line 33 runs to 88 characters ("fixes below LOCATION_FILTER ... The cold-relay Largest"). Please reflow it.

Earlier findings: everything from the bd8e9a3b follow-up is unchanged by this commit. The Subscribe Options 0x02 refusal and the cold-largest inbound PUBLISH/REQUEST_UPDATE paths are still open as non-blocking. Check and Test were pending at review time. Mergeable, blocked only on CI.

Verdict: ITERATE. Two plan fixes before implementation: guard the egress append against capped slices, and update ietf-d14-root-prefix now that Fastly found moxygen doesn't push on d14.

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[zshenker]

Thanks. Three notes:

• ietf-d14-root-prefix: our follow-up above (#issuecomment-6046932019) has the answer. moxygen sends no PUBLISH_NAMESPACE on d14 to a downstream that hasn't subscribed, and moqx no longer speaks d14. So "skip only" leaves a moq-dev downstream of moxygen with no namespaces.
• End of Group on an END_OF_GROUP stream (same comment): not in a quest yet. moq-dev refuses status 0x3 when the header has END_OF_GROUP, and imquic sends both, so each group's last object is lost.
• A correction to our End of Track argument: Grok is right that the END_OF_GROUP bit is still there. moq-dev's subgroup streams in our runs are type 0x59, which has it set, so a subscriber does learn at FIN that group 5 ended after object 4. What remains is that the relay changes the object's Location: 5/5 never arrives, and a 6/0 arrives on an extra stream. The fix in ietf-end-of-track-location covers that either way.

[kixelated]

Thanks, and sorry for missing your follow-up the first time.

• ietf-d14-root-prefix: narrowed. It stops sending the empty prefix, and the relay docs will say that an unscoped d14 link to moxygen discovers nothing, so operators should scope it. Since moxygen on d14 is the only affected pair and scoped links already work, we're not adding per-prefix subscription or upstream routing for unknown subscribes.
• End of Group on an END_OF_GROUP stream: confirmed and added as ietf-end-of-group-status in m0. It accepts status 0x3 whether or not the header bit is set, in Rust and js/net.
• End of Track: agreed, and the quest now gives the right reason. It also covers a case Grok raised: when the subscription's end Location caps the last group, that stream keeps the separate N/0 marker. That stream's header also stops claiming END_OF_GROUP.

Also thanks for confirming EXPIRES.

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[kixelated]

Grok follow-up review of 761a2124 (quest/docs only; re-review after the push from 4c737fbc)

One commit since 4c737fbc. It adds quest/m0/ietf-end-of-group-status.md, narrows ietf-d14-root-prefix, guards the End of Track append, and updates the m0 README. I checked the new claims against main, and they hold. IngestPhase::Status accepts 0x3 only when !self.has_end and otherwise returns Unsupported (subscriber.rs:3992-3999). js/net/src/ietf/object.ts:342-355 refuses it the same way when flags.hasEnd is set, so the JS half is real too. end_track aborts the track and returns ProtocolViolation on a bad end (subscriber.rs:2760-2769). doc/bin/relay/cluster.md exists. The "seven fixes below LOCATION_FILTER" count matches the README list.

Earlier findings from the 4c737fbc review:

• Fixed: 1 (the append now skips streams capped by GroupSlice::until, keeps the standalone N/0 marker, clears the capped header's END_OF_GROUP bit, and has a test case), 2 (d14 is narrowed to "stop sending the empty prefix" plus an operator note, with the rejected fallbacks recorded), 3 (the reason is reworded), 4 (the new End of Group quest), 5 (abort on ProtocolViolation), and 6 (line 33 is reflowed).
• Still open, non-blocking and untouched by this push: from the bd8e9a3b follow-up, the Subscribe Options 0x02 refusal in ietf-namespace-stream and the inbound PUBLISH/REQUEST_UPDATE paths in ietf-cold-largest.

Non-blocking

1. ietf-end-of-track-location: "clear it when until cuts the group short" can't be decided when the header goes out. The subgroup header is built when the stream opens (publisher.rs:2541-2557), before the publisher knows whether a live group will run past until. Say "clear END_OF_GROUP whenever slice.until is Some" (or whenever the group isn't already finished at or before until), so the implementer doesn't try to patch the header later. Clearing it on a group that happened to end early only loses the inference at FIN, which is harmless.
2. ietf-end-of-group-status: add the contradiction case to the tests. Once 0x3 is accepted on a marked stream, any object after the status, or a status at an ID below one already received, should still fail the stream. Otherwise "accept either way" can quietly hide a truncated group. One extra test next to the five-frame case covers it.

CI (Check, Test) was still pending at review time. The PR is mergeable, blocked only on CI.

Verdict: MERGE once CI is green.

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Review comments at @quest/m0/ietf-end-of-group-status.md:
- Around line 18-19: Update the recovery description near `END_OF_TRACK` to
state that `Error::Unsupported` aborts the local group producer without claiming
it resets the downstream stream. Mention later recovery of remaining frames only
as conditional on the model’s fetch path.

Review comments at @quest/m0/ietf-namespace-stream.md:
- Around line 31-33: Separate Subscribe Options 0x02 from 0x00 in the
namespace-stream guidance: define 0x02 as requesting both PUBLISH and NAMESPACE,
and specify behavior that still provides the requested NAMESPACE response rather
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Review comments at @quest/m1/ietf-cold-largest.md:
- Line 30: Update the track’s largest-value reporting so it retains the
received-object high-watermark independently of cached groups; make largest()
report the maximum of that high-watermark and the upstream live_floor, even
after the highest cached group is evicted.

Review comments at @quest/m1/README.md:
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[kixelated]

Automated review by review (OpenAI)

Reviewed commit: 761a212

Follow-up to f053b40, separating the main merge from the new interop plans. The narrower d14 discovery scope, capped-group End-of-Track guard, producer-abort requirement and explicit End-of-Group status case improve the plan.

Existing review concerns remain, independently confirmed in the current text/source:

• ietf-cold-largest.md's Goal requires the largest object ever received as well as upstream Largest, but its Plan only takes the maximum with cached objects. Cache eviction must not erase that high-watermark; track.rs currently derives largest() from newest cached state. Include an eviction regression and retained received-position state in the plan.
• ietf-namespace-stream.md says to fill the response whenever NAMESPACE is requested, then recommends refusing requests including 0x02, which the same document defines as requesting both. Settle that contradiction explicitly before implementation.
• ietf-end-of-group-status.md overstates recovery: recv_group's general error arm aborts the local producer and returns Ok, so it does not by itself establish either a downstream stream reset or a guaranteed refetch (ietf/subscriber.rs:2673–2693). Describe later model recovery conditionally.

These are corroborations of existing comments, not new inline findings. Direction: the decomposed fixes are useful, but the implementation plans should preserve their own stated invariants. No additional distinct issue identified.

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[kixelated]

Grok follow-up review of 6612e96e (quest/docs only; re-review after the push from 761a2124)

One commit since 761a2124. It flips the d16/d17 Subscribe Options 0x02 answer in ietf-namespace-stream, adds a Largest high-watermark to ietf-cold-largest (plus the m1 README line), and corrects what Unsupported does in ietf-end-of-group-status. I checked the new claims against main (cde7daee).

Earlier findings:

• Fixed: the 0x02 refusal from the bd8e9a3b follow-up. 0x01 and 0x02 now both get NAMESPACE, 0x02 is answered namespaces-only, and only 0x00 is refused.
• Verified: the end-of-group-status correction holds. An Unsupported from IngestPhase::Status (subscriber.rs:4021) lands in the Err(err) => producer.abort(err) arm of recv_group and returns Ok(()) (subscriber.rs:2683-2699), so the session survives and only the group is aborted.
• Still open, non-blocking: ietf-cold-largest still wires only the SUBSCRIBE_OK Largest, not the inbound PUBLISH (run_publish_stream) or REQUEST_UPDATE_OK that the quoted d18/d19 MUST also names. ietf-namespace-stream still doesn't say what a Subscribe Options value above 0x02 gets, or test one. Both non-blocking items from the 761a2124 review are untouched: the "clear END_OF_GROUP when until cuts the group short" wording (ietf-end-of-track-location.md:37-38), and the contradiction test case for end-of-group-status.

Should-fix

1. ietf-cold-largest: the new bullet's premise doesn't match the model, so the high-watermark and its test may be built for a case that can't happen.

   • "drops back once that group is evicted": the latest group is never evicted while the track has a producer. protects() (track.rs:956) shields latest_group from both the byte budget and idle expiry (track.rs:784: "never the latest"), and latest_group_never_evicted (track.rs:8771) tests exactly that. Protection only ends in close_cache, when no producer remains.
   • The publisher doesn't read State::largest() either. live_edge (publisher.rs:6716) takes track.latest(), which is max_sequence and never lowers, then peek_latest(). It falls back to largest_before only in the instant before the newest group has a frame.
   • "the upstream's Largest is kept only as live_floor" isn't right. set_live (track.rs:1298-1309) stores cached + 1, not the upstream's Largest, and only on an idle copy coming back. On a fresh subscription the track is live from creation, so set_live is a no-op. There the upstream's Largest goes only to start_at (the start floor) and held.largest (subscriber.rs:2014-2023).

   As written, the test "still reports it after that group is evicted" can't be set up on a live track. Suggested: drop the high-watermark and report the max of the carried upstream Largest and live_edge. Or name the case it actually covers, such as an ended track whose latest group expired, or the empty-newest-group instant, and test that case instead.

CI (Check, Test) was queued at review time, and mergeability was still being computed.

Verdict: ITERATE. It's a small plan fix, but the cold-largest quest currently asks for new model state on a premise the code contradicts.

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[kixelated]

Automated review by review (OpenAI)

Reviewed commit: 6b07fba

Incremental review since 761a212, separating the four-file plan revision from the main merge.

Fixed: the 0x02 namespace-response contradiction and the overstated group-status recovery are addressed. The m1 summary now includes received objects.

Existing plan correction, corroborating the independent review, without duplicate inline comments: quest/m1/ietf-cold-largest.md:29–35 and 43–48 should name the actual retention case. The current latest live group is protected from eviction (model/track.rs:959–977); live_floor is a cache-validity group floor, not stored upstream Largest (1303–1314); and the publisher uses live_edge/largest_before, not State::largest (ietf/publisher.rs:6872–6936). My previous review's unqualified eviction rationale was too broad.

Keep the received-object invariant, but make its regression concrete: create an empty newer group, which demotes the last object-bearing group, expire that older group, then verify SUBSCRIBE_OK still reports its received Location. insert_group/commit_group permit that sequence (model/track.rs:1030–1088), while live_edge currently falls back through the cache. This supports the high-watermark without trying to evict a still-protected latest group or repurposing live_floor.

Direction: the narrowly scoped interop plans remain useful; correct the model rationale and test setup before implementation. No additional distinct actionable finding.

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[kixelated]

Re the OpenAI review of 6b07fba7 and the Grok follow-up of 6612e96e, fixed in 7440d3a:

• ietf-cold-largest.md: the rationale now says the latest group is protected from eviction, that live_floor is a cache-validity floor rather than the upstream's Largest, and that the upstream's Largest only reaches start_at and the held subscription state. The high-watermark stays. Its regression is concrete: create an empty newer group, expire the older object-bearing group it demoted, and SUBSCRIBE_OK still reports that group's Location. The same Largest also goes out on a d18+ inbound PUBLISH and REQUEST_UPDATE_OK.
• ietf-namespace-stream.md: a Subscribe Options value above 0x02 is malformed and refused, and 0x03 is added to the test.
• Left for implementation (non-blocking): the ietf-end-of-track-location wording nit and the end-of-group-status contradiction test.

(Written by Claude Opus 5.5)

[kixelated]

Grok follow-up review of 7440d3a3 (quest/docs only; re-review after the push from 6612e96e, the main merge 6b07fba7 left out)

One commit since 6612e96e. It re-grounds the ietf-cold-largest high-watermark in a case the model really has, and has ietf-namespace-stream refuse Subscribe Options above 0x02. I checked the new claims against main (6e95df76).

Earlier findings:

• Fixed: the should-fix on ietf-cold-largest. The premise now matches the code. protects() only shields latest_group (track.rs:961-963), and insert_group moves latest_group to a new group as soon as it is inserted, frames or not, demoting the previous one into the eviction order (track.rs:1044-1054). live_edge then sees an empty newest group and falls back to largest_before (publisher.rs:6886), which walks only cached groups (publisher.rs:6925-6937). So if the demoted group is evicted or expires while the newer one is still empty, its Location is lost. The live_floor correction ("a cache-validity group floor") and the start_at plus held.largest description (subscriber.rs:2019-2028) are right too. The new regression test can be set up.
• Fixed: cold-largest now sends the same Largest on d18+ inbound PUBLISH and REQUEST_UPDATE_OK, not just SUBSCRIBE_OK.
• Fixed: namespace-stream now says what a value above 0x02 gets, and tests 0x03.
• Still open, non-blocking (untouched): the "clear END_OF_GROUP when until cuts the group short" wording in ietf-end-of-track-location.md:37-38, and the contradiction test case for end-of-group-status.

Non-blocking

1. ietf-cold-largest: say to rewrite the largest_before doc comment. It currently reads "Empty groups exist for at most the instant between creation and first frame" and "A group evicted from the cache is not visible, which is fine: Largest Object is the track from this publisher's perspective, and that is the cache" (publisher.rs:6920-6924). The high-watermark is a decision against both sentences, so an implementer who keeps the comment leaves it contradicting the code. It would also help to say the window is wider on a relay than that comment suggests, because ingress creates the group when the upstream opens the stream, before its first object arrives.
2. ietf-namespace-stream: "malformed" is our call, not the drafts'. d16 §9.25 and d17 §9.20 list only 0x00, 0x01 and 0x02 and say nothing about other values. The decoder accepts any varint (subscribe_namespace.rs:135-138, and subscribe_namespace.ts:143-145 in JS). Say whether the refusal is a REQUEST_ERROR on that request, like 0x00, or a session-level PROTOCOL_VIOLATION, so both languages pick the same one.

CI (Check, Test) was pending at review time. The PR is mergeable and blocked only on checks.

Verdict: MERGE once CI is green. The should-fix is resolved, and what's left is wording.

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[kixelated]

Automated review by review (OpenAI)

Reviewed commit: 7440d3a

Incremental review of the two-file change since 6b07fba; no intervening base merge.

Fixed: the Largest rationale now distinguishes live_floor from upstream Largest and tests an older object-bearing group demoted by an empty newer group. That setup matches track.rs:1030–1088 and publisher.rs:6872–6936. The namespace plan also names the unknown-option case. Earlier namespace-response and recovery corrections remain intact.

One new plan correction is inline: inbound PUBLISH is currently rejected, so it cannot be an outbound Largest-reporting path. This differs from the latest independent review's claim that this path is now covered. Keep the cold-relay work scoped to supported message directions; the retained high-watermark and concrete regression are otherwise a sound direction. Previously discussed End-of-Track wording and contradiction-test follow-ups are unchanged.

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[kixelated]

Automated review by review (OpenAI)

Reviewed commit: 82cfcbb

No new actionable finding in the one-file change since 7440d3a; no intervening base merge.

Fixed: quest/m1/ietf-cold-largest.md:41–43 addresses the previous PUBLISH finding. Reporting is now scoped to outbound SUBSCRIBE_OK and track-update REQUEST_OK, with rejected inbound PUBLISH explicitly out of scope. This matches subscriber.rs:1311–1347 and the update-response path at publisher.rs:891–927. REQUEST_OK's Largest encoding remains future implementation work; this plan does not claim it is already present.

Direction: the narrowed scope, retained high-watermark and concrete eviction regression are sound. Earlier non-blocking wording/test follow-ups are unchanged; no duplicate inline comments added.

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[kixelated]

Merge summary (head 82cfcbbd, reviewed clean by OpenAI):

• Triage of Fastly's moq-relay-interop report: 7 m0 interop quests (params per draft, End of Track location, namespace stream, dial split horizon, d14 root prefix, End of Group status, FIRST_OBJECT at 0) and 2 m1 quests (cold relay Largest, deviations doc). Items 5, 9, 11, 12, and 14's error code were already fixed on main or are not bugs.
• Review fixes since the last summary: cold-largest keeps a received-object high-watermark, with a concrete demoted-group regression, and reports only in SUBSCRIBE_OK and the track-update REQUEST_OK (inbound PUBLISH is refused today, so it is out of scope). namespace-stream answers 0x01 and 0x02 with NAMESPACE, refuses 0x00 and unknown options, and leaves the 0x02 track half to the implementer with a recommendation. end-of-group-status describes recovery as conditional.
• Merged main (the completed transcode-fetch-demand entry is gone).
• Several of these quests already have draft PRs (docs(concept): list the relay's moq-transport deviations #5022, fix(net): skip an empty SUBSCRIBE_NAMESPACE on draft-14 #5024, fix(net): give an anonymous dial its own hop #5025, fix(net): accept a clear FIRST_OBJECT that starts at object 0 #5027, fix(net): accept each draft's message parameters #5028, fix(net): report a cold relay's upstream Largest #5030, fix(net): honor SUBSCRIBE_NAMESPACE options and fill draft-16+ streams #5032), which delete their quest files once this lands.

Enabling auto-merge.

(Written by Claude Opus 5.5)

[zshenker]

Reruns on main 11ee77d (2026-10-08), with #5018, #5022, #5025, #5027, #5028 and #5032 merged:

Fixed, confirmed

• NAMESPACE on the stream (fix(net): honor SUBSCRIBE_NAMESPACE options and fill draft-16+ streams #5032): namespace-subscribe and namespace-done-propagation pass at T0 (d16–d22), T1 (moq-dev downstream) and T2 (moq-dev upstream). Our probe sends Subscribe Options 0x02.
• Split horizon (fix(net): give an anonymous dial its own hop #5025): the loops with moxygen or moqx upstream are gone in T1, T3, T4, T6 and T7 (d16 and d18). The d16 moq-dev origin with moq-dev edges (fanout-late-join) no longer loops, and neither does T5 with moqtail upstream. That's 104 cells that used to fail on the loop.
• Parameters (fix(net): accept each draft's message parameters #5028): moqx downstream of moq-dev on d16 passes with no redials. EXPIRES in SUBSCRIBE_OK passes on d14–d21. A T0 sweep of every scenario found no regressions from the stricter rules.
• FIRST_OBJECT at 0 (fix(net): accept a clear FIRST_OBJECT that starts at object 0 #5027): a new scenario opens subgroups with the bit clear (type 0x10). It passes on d18 and d21.
• d14 prefix (fix(net): skip the empty namespace for foreign draft-14 and draft-15 peers #5018): the moxygen hop now carries only SETUP. As expected, moq-dev downstream of moxygen still learns no namespaces on an unscoped link.

Unchanged, as planned

• End of Track still arrives at 6/0 (deferred to m1).
• End of Group with imquic still loses x/5 on d16, d18 and d21 (ietf-end-of-group-status).
• RENDEZVOUS_TIMEOUT is still answered at once.
• A cold edge still answers INVALID_RANGE.

Still failing: the echo through moq-rs
With moq-rs downstream of moq-dev on d16, moq-dev still sends its SUBSCRIBE back down to moq-rs: moq-rs logs "serving subscribe" on moq-dev's session. moq-rs is the one that dials here, so #5025's per-dial hop doesn't apply. On 11ee77d, announce-subscribe now fails too, with the probe's SUBSCRIBE refused as "duplicate subscription". On 0f310a5 that test passed. T3/A=moq-dev,B=moq-rs,C=moq-dev still times out. moq-rs echoing the namespace is part of this, but moq-dev routing to that session is the half we can see.

One more observation
Absolute filters on d21 and d22 pass now, so we've enabled them for moq-dev from d20. That exposed that REQUEST_UPDATE accepts only a priority change. An update with a LOCATION_FILTER (or a fill, timeout or FORWARD=0) gets NOT_SUPPORTED "REQUEST_UPDATE parameters not supported", and the subscription ends (request_stream.rs unsupported). We now mark subscribe.update unsupported for moq-dev. If narrowing a subscription is planned, we can rerun subscribe-update-narrow when it lands.

[zshenker]

Confirmed on main d006689 (2026-10-09):

• fix(net): accept an End of Group status on a marked subgroup stream #5081, End of Group: with imquic upstream of moq-dev, status-end-of-group now passes on d16, d18 and d21, over QUIC and WebTransport. We've removed it from our known failures.
• fix(net): draft-22 LOCATION_FILTER carries its Location Filter Type #5080, draft-22 LOCATION_FILTER: moq-dev now passes d22 like d21. At T0, 54 d22 cells pass (18 before), and T1/T2 subscribes through moq-dev on d22 work. The only d22 failures left are the ones d21 also has: RENDEZVOUS_TIMEOUT answered at once, and End of Track at the next group (ietf-end-of-track-placement).

Thanks for turning these around so quickly. We'll add a test with a range ending mid-group to cover #5077.