fix(net): name the groups a lite-05/06 subscription never got

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Problem

On moq-lite 05 and 06 a subscriber cannot tell a group that is still on its way from one that will never come. When a track ends with a sequence missing below its end (a skipped sequence, such as the TS passthrough discontinuity marker from #5003, or a group the cursor passed over as stale), the subscriber waits out its tail grace, which is the subscription's max age, before it settles. #4225 makes readers wait for that tail too, so a TS passthrough recording over lite-06 ended 30 s late there.

Approach

A slice of quest/m1/subscribe-drop.md:

• rs/moq-net/src/lite/publisher.rs: on lite-05 and lite-06, the subscription's run loop tracks the sequences it served (or sent as datagrams) in a tail::Tail with the subscriber's grace, so a gap the subscriber no longer waits for is folded away and memory stays bounded by the gaps opened within the grace. When the track ends, it sends SUBSCRIBE_DROP for every gap from its SUBSCRIBE_START to the end, capped by the subscriber's end, before the FIN. The track has ended, so none of those groups will be served.
• start_sent: bool becomes start: Option<u64>, the resolved start the drops count from, lowered by a SUBSCRIBE_UPDATE that asks for earlier groups. The lowering also restarts the age of the gaps it newly asks for, up to the floor asked for last (Tail::demand), as the subscriber does, so neither side folds them on time from before the update.
• Without a SUBSCRIBE_START (the start never resolved) no drop goes out: the subscriber owes itself no group then and settles on the FIN.
• Subscription::serve_datagram reports whether the datagram went out, so only a sent one counts as served.
• tail::Tail::gaps lists the unaccounted runs of a range.
• The Rust and @moq/net subscribers already account for a drop in their tail, so they settle at once. js/net/src/lite/tail.test.ts already covers the JS side.

Impact

• Wire: a Rust lite-05/06 publisher now sends SUBSCRIBE_DROP (already on those versions' wire, never sent before). No new messages or fields. just test wire-compat against released versions passes.
• No public API change.
• Behavior: a lite-05/06 subscription whose track skipped sequences settles without the grace.

Decisions

• Lite-05/06 only, not 03/04: those carry no SUBSCRIBE_END, so neither the Rust nor the JS subscriber has an owed range to settle against. A drop there would only add traffic to legacy peers. ✅ (maintainer, 2026-10-09; recorded in the quest)
• Drops go out once the track ends, not as soon as a group is given up. A relay's copy can still receive a lower group late, so a gap is final only at the end. The quest keeps the eager case.

Alternatives

Marking gaps explicitly in the media layers (cut, discontinuities): unneeded for this case, since any sequence the run loop never served is a gap once the track ends.

Validation

• the_end_drops_below_a_lowered_start (fails without the lowered floor), the_end_drops_below_a_lowered_start_after_the_grace (fails without restarting the gap ages), the_end_drops_below_a_start_raised_then_lowered (fails when restarting only below the lowest start), and the_end_drops_only_gaps_within_the_grace cover the review fixes.
• track_tail::skipped_groups_end_without_the_grace now covers lite-05, 06, and 07. It fails without the change (lite-05 waits the grace).
• lite::publisher::serve_group_test::the_end_drops_the_sequences_never_served: groups 0 and 2 with end 4 send DROP 1..1 and 3..3 on lite-05 and 06. It fails without the change.
• cargo nextest run --workspace (excluding moq-uring and moq-gst, which hit host limits): 6468 passed. The one failure, moq-cli publish::tests::ts_passthrough_crosses_a_relay_through_a_flagged_jump in its moq-transport-14 case ("both copies crossed"), is a pre-existing flake: 1 of 6 standalone runs fail on main, and more under load. This PR doesn't touch the IETF path.
• just test interop --all and just test wire-compat pass.

Follow-ups

• The moq-cli passthrough relay test flakes on moq-transport-14 under load (pre-existing on main).
• The rest of quest/m1/subscribe-drop.md: JS publishers, eager drops, resets before the header, lite-07, and a gap the publisher ages out while its group above waits on stream credit (recorded there).

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Automated review of bc43783e

Sending SUBSCRIBE_DROP for unserved gaps at track end on lite-05/06 is a small, wire-compatible fix, and both new tests fail without it. I found no blocking issues.

Non-blocking

1. No drops when the start never resolved (publisher.rs, drop_unserved). It returns early when self.start is None. Say a track ends while first is still held, or after only missing-head groups were skipped (those are recorded in skipped, not served). Then the subscriber gets no DROP and still waits out the grace. That may be fine, since there's no SUBSCRIBE_START to count from, but a test or comment would pin down the intent.
2. A late lower group on a relay (hunch, please verify). The PR says gaps are final only at the end. On a relay, Recv::Finished fires when the local copy finishes. If upstream FIN can arrive before a lower group's stream does (streams aren't ordered against the control stream), the relay could DROP a group it would have served moments later. Worth checking that the relay's track only finishes after the upstream tail settles.
3. poll_finished not ready at Recv::Finished silently skips the drops. If that can't happen, a debug_assert! would catch a regression better than a quiet fallback.
4. Served but later aborted groups are counted as served, so they get no DROP. That's correct as long as the reset reaches the subscriber, which is just noting the assumption.
5. mark_served keeps one run per gap, so memory grows only with the number of gaps. That's fine.

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Bound the per-subscription served-run history

For every long-lived lite-05/06 subscription with recurring sequence gaps, this vector retains another range until the track finally ends, so memory grows with the lifetime's total discontinuities and is duplicated for every subscriber. This can exhaust memory on indefinite live tracks, especially because skipped sequences are the target use case; use bounded/shared accounting or retire finalized prefixes rather than retaining all served runs.

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Fixed in 2869d70. The served history is now a tail::Tail with the subscriber's grace (tail::grace(max_delay)), so a gap older than that folds away, as it does on the subscriber, who no longer waits for it. Memory is bounded by the gaps opened within the grace. Covered by the_end_drops_only_gaps_within_the_grace.

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Record datagrams sent while waiting for SUBSCRIBE_START

This marks datagrams only in the normal receive branch, while the special path at lines 2824-2828 can also send a datagram while self.first waits for the source start and never calls mark_served. If that happens and the track then ends, drop_unserved emits a DROP for the datagram; when that reliable DROP and the FIN arrive before the datagram, the subscriber can settle and remove the subscription, discarding the late datagram.

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Fixed in 2869d70. Both datagram paths now go through TrackRun::serve_datagram, which records the sequence.

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Follow a lowered SUBSCRIBE_UPDATE start when dropping gaps

When a SUBSCRIBE_UPDATE lowers an explicit start, update() rewinds the track cursor but this value remains the original SUBSCRIBE_START. The subscriber explicitly reopens and demands the newly included range, so if only some groups below the old start are available, this loop never emits DROPs for the missing ones and the subscription still waits out its grace at FIN. Track the current requested floor separately and begin final gap accounting from the lowered start.

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Fixed in 2869d70. An update that lowers the start lowers the floor the drops count from, too. Covered by the_end_drops_below_a_lowered_start, which fails without it.

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The Rust publisher records the resolved subscription start and served sequences for Lite05 and Lite06. When a track finishes, it emits SUBSCRIBE_DROP messages for unserved gaps within the subscription boundary. Lite07 stream-count handling remains separate. Tests verify emitted drop intervals for Lite05 and Lite06, and verify that skipped-sequence tails finish promptly across Lite05, Lite06, and Lite07-wip.

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Reviewed commit: bc43783

Direction: reusing the existing lite-05/06 DROP message is a sensible, wire-compatible fix. I independently confirmed these existing findings:

• Datagrams sent while START is pending, rs/moq-net/src/lite/publisher.rs:2879-2880: the other send path at 2824-2828 omits mark_served. A later DROP can close the subscription before that datagram arrives. Centralize accounting with forwarding so both paths use it; test a held first group with a delayed datagram.
• Lowered subscription start, publisher.rs:2948: START 5, UPDATE start 2, served group 5, END 6 emits no DROP for 2–4 although the subscriber now owes 2..6, preserving the full grace delay. Derive the effective floor consistently with SubStream::owed and test this update.
• Unbounded served history, publisher.rs:2703,2927: recurring gaps retain one range each for the subscription's entire lifetime, multiplied by viewers. Bound/retire finalized accounting and check sparse long-lived tracks across subscriber counts.

Verification: reviewed the full diff and relevant publisher, subscriber, model, and tail code through GitHub. No tests executed here; GitHub workflows remain queued/running.

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Automated follow-up review of 2869d702 (after bc43783e)

This push bounds the publisher's served history with the shared Tail (gaps older than the subscriber's grace fold away), makes a SUBSCRIBE_UPDATE that lowers the start also lower the drop range, records a datagram as served only once it was handed to the transport, and documents that lite-03/04 get no drops. The two new tests cover the lowered start and the grace fold. I found no blocking issues.

Non-blocking

1. A lowered start doesn't restart the gap ages (publisher.rs, TrackRun::update). self.start drops to the new start, but served.demand(new_start..old_start, now) isn't called. Tail::demand exists for exactly this on the subscriber side. Scenario: start resolves at 5, groups 1..3 were skipped more than the grace ago and folded, then an update lowers the start to 0. The publisher has folded that gap so it sends no DROP, while a subscriber that restarted its ages on the lowered demand waits out the full grace for it. Calling demand when lowered is below the old start would keep both sides in step. A test with a time advance before the update would pin it down.
2. Grace clocks start at different times on each side. The publisher ages a gap from when it saw it, and the subscriber from when it saw it, which is later by the path delay. A gap the publisher folds just before the end can still be one the subscriber is waiting on, so it waits out the remainder. That's only a small latency cost, but a comment noting that the fold is meant to be conservative would help.
3. serve_datagram returns true even if send_datagram fails (let _ =). That matches the doc ("handed to the transport") and the "lost datagram is not owed" rule, so this is fine. I'm only noting it because the new return value reads like "sent".

Earlier findings

• Unbounded served history: fixed by folding through Tail.
• No drops when the start never resolved (self.start == None): still open. It's the same early return.
• Relay could DROP a lower group whose stream lands after upstream FIN (hunch): still open and unverified.
• poll_finished not ready silently skips the drops: still open.

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Follow-up to the Grok review notes, in 6842a27:

• Lowered start doesn't restart gap ages: fixed. TrackRun::update now calls served.demand(new_start..old_start, now), mirroring the subscriber. the_end_drops_below_a_lowered_start_after_the_grace (start 5, wait past the grace, update to 0, serve 2, end 6) expects DROP 0..1 and 3..4, and it fails without the fix (the 3..4 gap folds on the pre-update age).
• No drops when the start never resolved: intended. With no SUBSCRIBE_START, SubStream::owed gives an empty range, so the subscriber settles on the FIN alone. There is a comment on the early return now.
• poll_finished not ready at Recv::Finished: Recv::Finished only fires once the groups are exhausted, which means a final sequence or a close. A close without a final sequence sent no SUBSCRIBE_END, so the subscriber owes no range either. Commented that too.
• Relay drops a late lower group: checked. A relay's lite subscriber calls serving.finish() only after its upstream tail settles (ServeMode::Tail), so Recv::Finished on the downstream publisher follows the upstream's settle, not just its FIN.
• Grace clocks offset by path delay: accepted as a small latency cost. The subscriber can only wait out the remainder of a gap the publisher folded just before the end.

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Automated follow-up review of 6842a27c (after 2869d702)

This push fixes the main finding from the last review: a SUBSCRIBE_UPDATE that lowers the start now calls served.demand(start..resolved, now) (publisher.rs, TrackRun::update), so the publisher restarts gap ages the same way the subscriber does. It also moves set_grace ahead of the demand so the new ages use the updated grace. The new test the_end_drops_below_a_lowered_start_after_the_grace advances 2s past a 1s grace before the update and expects [(0, 1), (3, 4)], which would fold to nothing without the fix. I found no blocking issues.

Non-blocking

1. A lowered start before the start resolves is ignored for drops. When self.start is None, the new branch skips both demand and the self.start update. That's consistent with the new comment (with no SUBSCRIBE_START the subscriber owes nothing), but if the start later resolves above the lowered value, self.start is set from the resolution alone, not min(lowered, resolved). Worth checking that the resolution path already honours track.start_at(start), so the two sides agree. A short test (update before the first group arrives) would pin this down.
2. demand with an empty or inverted range. When start >= resolved the range is empty. That's fine as long as Tail::demand treats an inverted range as a no-op and doesn't panic. A debug_assert or an explicit if start < resolved would make the intent clear.

Earlier findings

• Lowered start doesn't restart gap ages: fixed, with a test.
• Grace clocks start at different times on each side: still only a latency note, and there's no comment saying the fold is meant to be conservative.
• No drops when the start never resolved: now documented as intended (the subscriber settles on FIN alone). Resolved.
• poll_finished not ready skips the drops: now documented (no SUBSCRIBE_END means nothing is owed). Resolved.
• Relay may DROP a lower group whose stream lands after upstream FIN (hunch): still unverified.

CI is pending (Android, Check, Test, WASM, Windows, macOS), so this wasn't verified here.

Verdict: MERGE (once CI is green)

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[kixelated]

Automated review by review (OpenAI)

Reviewed commit: 6842a27

The shared datagram helper fixes the missing START-pending accounting, and the direct floor-lowering case is covered. Bounding history is the right direction, but the replacement aging logic still misses necessary DROPs:

• P2, publisher.rs:2796–2800: refresh against the previous requested floor. self.start is the historical minimum. After START 0, raise to 5, then lower to 2: this calls demand(2..0), while the subscriber calls demand(2..5). With groups 0 and 5 received at t=0, 1s grace, lowering at t=0.9 and END 6 at t=1.1, the publisher forgets gaps 2–4 while the subscriber still waits for them. Capture the previous subscription floor before track.update, independently of the DROP-range minimum, and add a raise-then-lower regression.

• P2, publisher.rs:2971–2972: the existing clock-offset concern can cost a full grace period. Groups are recorded before stream credit is available (3030). Queue same-timestamp groups 0 and 2 for 2s with 1s grace, deliver them, then END 3: sender expiry suppresses DROP 1, but the receiver only just decoded the headers and waits another full second. Retain or communicate missing-sequence information before forgetting it, and cover blocked stream credit end-to-end. Tail::account also expires ranges, so removing only the final expire is insufficient.

Verification: static GitHub review of the substantive delta and related publisher/subscriber/tail paths; no tests executed here. Current CI is queued.

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Re the OpenAI review of 6842a27c:

• Raise then lower demands against the historical minimum: fixed in d6284ac. update now restarts the gaps from the new start up to the floor asked for last (or the resolved start without one), matching SubStream's demand(start..floor). the_end_drops_below_a_start_raised_then_lowered (start 0, raise to 5, lower to 2 at 0.9 s, end 6 at 1.1 s, 1 s grace) expects DROP 1..4 and fails without the fix.
• Groups recorded as served before stream credit: not fixing here. The worst case is that the subscriber waits out the grace, which is what every lite-05/06 subscription does today without this PR, so it is a missed speedup rather than a regression or a correctness bug. Closing it means tracking when each stream's header actually goes out, or keeping every gap until the end (the unbounded history Codex flagged), and that doesn't fit this slice. It belongs with the eager drops in quest/m1/subscribe-drop.md.

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Automated follow-up review of d6284ac2 (after 6842a27c)

This push narrows the restart on a lowered start: TrackRun::update now restarts gap ages over start..floor, where floor is the start the subscriber asked for last (falling back to the resolved start), instead of start..resolved. That fixes a real case the previous version missed: after raising the start to 5 and lowering it to 2, groups 2..5 are newly owed again, but start..resolved (resolved = 0) was empty, so their ages weren't restarted and the end-of-track drops could fold them away. The new test the_end_drops_below_a_start_raised_then_lowered covers exactly that. I found no blocking issues.

Non-blocking

1. Test relies on group 1 surviving the grace. The expected [(1, 4)] includes group 1, which was owed from t=0 and is 1.1s old at the end with a 1s grace. If that's because raising the start to 5 and lowering it again counts group 1 as re-owed, fine, but demand(2..5) alone wouldn't restart it. A one-line comment on why group 1 is still in the drop range would stop a future reader from "fixing" the assertion.
2. Range is now start..floor with floor from the old request, not the resolved start. When the old request was below the resolved start (asked for 0, resolved at 3) and the new start is between them, the range is empty, which is right since those groups were already owed. Just noting there's no test for that direction.
3. Still open from before: the update-before-start-resolves case is skipped without a test, and the relay late-stream-after-FIN hunch is unverified.

Earlier findings

• Lowered start doesn't restart gap ages: fixed last push, and now correct after a raise too.
• Empty or inverted demand range: still implicit; an if start < floor guard would make it explicit.

CI is pending (Android, Check, Test, WASM, Windows, macOS), so this wasn't verified here.

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[kixelated]

Automated follow-up review of 7d66c7e7 (after 6842a27c)

This push makes a lowered SUBSCRIBE_UPDATE restart gap ages only below the floor the subscriber asked for last (requested), not below the resolved start, so a start raised then lowered restarts the gaps under the raised floor. The new test the_end_drops_below_a_start_raised_then_lowered covers that sequence, and the quest now records the queued-group aging gap as a known miss. The logic looks right to me.

Non-blocking

1. Requested floor below the resolved start (publisher.rs, TrackRun::update). floor = requested.unwrap_or(resolved) takes the requested group even when it's lower than resolved (for example, start asked at group 0 but resolved to 3 because 0..3 were never there). A later update lowering to 2 then calls demand(2..0), an empty range, so gaps 2..3 keep their old ages. Using requested.map_or(resolved, |r| r.max(resolved)), or clamping before calling demand, would cover it. Worth checking whether the subscriber clamps the same way, so the two clocks stay in step.
2. The aging gap the quest now documents (a gap aged from queue time rather than header send time) is still open. Fine as a follow-up, since it's written down.

Verdict: MERGE

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Merge summary

Changes since the reviews of 2869d702:

• 6842a27c: a SUBSCRIBE_UPDATE that lowers the start restarts the gap ages it newly asks for (Tail::demand), as the subscriber does. The no-start and no-final-sequence early returns in drop_unserved now say why no drop is owed.
• d6284ac2: the restart reaches up to the floor asked for last, not the lowest start ever asked for (OpenAI P2, raise then lower).
• 7d66c7e7: quest/m1/subscribe-drop.md records the remaining miss: a gap aged from when its group above was queued, before stream credit lets the header out.

Each fix has a regression test that fails without it.

Decisions:

• Not fixing the queued-group aging here (OpenAI P2). The worst case is a wait of the grace, which is today's behavior without this PR. It's recorded in the quest.
• Grok's note on a requested floor below the resolved start: kept as is. The subscriber computes the same demand(start..floor) with its last requested floor, and it accounts groups below SUBSCRIBE_START as unavailable when the START arrives, so the two sides stay in step. At worst, the publisher sends an extra drop for a group the subscriber has already settled, which is harmless.

Review: OpenAI reviewed 6842a27c. The delta after that is the one-line fix it asked for, its test, and a quest note.

Auto-merge is enabled, pinned to 7d66c7e7906acb8e1752fbd81301495470285f95.

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