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Problem

This finishes Fetch as a range, on its third attempt. The maintainer kept track::Consumer::fetch_group public as the single-group fetch. What a one-range read still needed was to do what a fetch does on every path. This PR closes those gaps:

• A bounded read through an origin's routes (any remote broadcast) parked past its end instead of ending.
• A bounded read of a cached live group missing its first frames returned Error::Lagged, where a fetch fills the head.
• On moq-transport, a first bounded request SUBSCRIBEd before anything named the edge. A finished track refuses that.

The quest's remaining lite-07 work moves to lite-07 ranges (decisions 7 and 8 below), and this PR deletes the quest.

Approach

• A front's bounded read ends (model/resume.rs, Reader::exhausted). The serving copy's cursor judges the window from its resume point, against both its own record and the logical reader's. A replaced or backfill copy that may still deliver keeps the read open (let_go's wait). So does a group in range under the resume point that the local floor or cap keeps out, as on one cursor. Wire publishers still park. A copy that is itself a front judges across its own copies.
  • A replaced copy that is never bounded no longer keeps a bounded read open once the reader holds every group of its window (Retain::holds_window). It counts as kept, not waited on, so a widening judges it again. This fixes a 0..1 read hanging after a route switch to a copy with nothing or only a repeat (automated OpenAI review).
• Head fill (model/track.rs, Heads). A bounded window hands out a group missing its head only once a fill answers from frame 0, through the same Fetching path fetch_group uses (Fetching::cached_or_queued). A refused head gives the group up like an unfillable miss. A head the reader's bounds no longer admit is let go, and an ordered read lets go of heads it passed.
  • Answered heads go out in the subscription's order (next_head), as owed and filled groups do. Before this, the lowest went first even on a descending read (pullfrog).
  • Earlier round: a head fill no longer judges staleness across the whole cache (Fetching::unjudged). The cursor judges each head against its own window and budget: an answered one when it is handed out (poll_stale), and one still asked in expire_heads, which writes a stale head off as Old whether or not the cache still holds the headless copy. The walk's write-off moved into write_off_stale, which both paths share.
• First bounded moq-transport request (ietf/subscriber.rs). A request whose ranges all have an absolute start and end asks TRACK_STATUS first. linger subscribes only once a range reaches the reported Largest Object, so a history read is served by FETCH and never SUBSCRIBEs.
• Latest round: merged main (conflict-free), which planned this PR's follow-ups (moq-dev/moq#7642). JS ranges now states one bounded-completion rule. It mirrors the Rust copy when it lands, with SUBSCRIBE_FINISH as the target and the interim reopen behavior until then, since that quest does not wait on Lite-07 ranges (CodeRabbit).
• Earlier round, quests: merged main (conflict-free). quest rm deleted the fetch-range quest and its links. Lite-07 ranges took four things: the settled explicit-end design (SUBSCRIBE_FINISH, the stream stays open, no covered FIN), the back-to-back hang as an acceptance test with its root cause, the one-group SUBSCRIBE recovery with its tests, and the draft's live-edge note. It is resized from [L] to [XL] for them. JS ranges now points at the settled end design instead of telling JS to mirror only the covered FIN. The prose links in time-addressing/model.md were fixed by hand.
• Earlier round, main's changes: two tests changed after the merge.
  • fetch_only::a_relay_answers_a_history_subscribe_on_a_fetched_copy (new on main in moq-dev/moq#7631) checked the relay's upstream SUBSCRIBE as soon as subscribe returned. A first bounded read now asks TRACK_STATUS first, which the relay answers without an edge, so the SUBSCRIBE follows. The test now reads the group first, then checks, and also asserts the read ends.
  • fix(net): a relay answers a SUBSCRIBE on a copy it kept after a fetch #7631 also stopped refusing a draft-18 bounded SUBSCRIBE. range_read::a_range_across_the_live_edge_reads_up_to_its_end now covers draft-18, direct and relayed.

Choices made here, for review:

• Lite-05/06 keep a bounded SUBSCRIBE for a one-range read. Lite has no way to report the live edge before lite-07, so nothing tells a relay that a range is history.
• The two subscribe_ranges draft-22 tests that opened with a two-group history read now open with a range that reaches the Largest Object. A two-group history read now goes to FETCH, which our publishers refuse. The two moq-c update tests now keep an open range far ahead, per the rule that a reader that will widen keeps a range open.
• Lite-07 ranges is resized to [XL]: it now owns the explicit-end wire change and the dropped-group recovery as well as the range fill.

Impact

• Public API: no signature changes. Behavior:
  • A bounded read through an origin's routes ends instead of parking.
  • A bounded read fills a missing head instead of returning Lagged.
  • A first bounded moq-transport request asks TRACK_STATUS before subscribing.
  • All three are noted under ## Unreleased in rs/moq-net/MIGRATE.md.
• Wire: no format change. Over moq-transport, a first bounded request sends TRACK_STATUS before SUBSCRIBE, or instead of it for history.

Decisions

Settled by the maintainer on 2026-11-02:

1. Scope. Superseded by decision 5.
   • ✅ Keep going here: remove the public fetch_group in this PR and migrate its callers to one-range reads, finishing the quest.
   • Land this now and remove the API later.
2. Past-group reads on lite-05/06.
   • ✅ (a) Subscribe, and rewrite the four test files that expect a FETCH (fetch_pipeline, fetch_fanout, fetch_cancel, catalog_handover).
   • (b) FETCH only.
3. Newest group on moq-transport (the relay's newest-group read).
   • ✅ The simplest option: keep the new behavior and read it as live with a SUBSCRIBE, with no special-case fallback. A finished track refuses it, and that is accepted. "Whatever the simplest option is, prob subscribe. I hate the IETF fetch/subscribe logic and we should not agonize over making it correct."
   • FETCH it.
   • SUBSCRIBE while the track is live, FETCH once it ended.
4. Multi-group past reads between our own moq-transport nodes.
   • ✅ Accept the refusal (the groups come back as dropped) until the IETF hole-marker quest lands.
   • Answer a multi-group FETCH now.
5. fetch_group stays public as the single-group fetch: "We can have a public fetch_group for a single group." Its callers keep it. Removing it surfaced two problems that a single-group fetch already avoids:
   • On-demand local tracks ask a fill only below a declared start_at.
   • A group past the live edge waits, so /fetch?group=99 would answer 504 instead of 404.
6. Lite-07 FETCH replacement: "lite-07 can issue a one group SUBSCRIBE as a FETCH replacement (no max-delay) if an existing SUBSCRIBE had it dropped", "and only when the group is officially marked DROP so we don't receive two copies of it." Where it is built is decision 8.

Settled by the maintainer on 2026-11-02, after the last round:

7. Lite-07 back-to-back hang. On lite-07, one-range reads of groups 1 then 2, or 2, 1, 0, through one session hang on the later read, direct and via a relay. The cause is the publisher's end-of-subscription FIN on a covered bounded subscription. If a widening SUBSCRIBE_UPDATE races the FIN, the copy waits forever on the widened range. If the FIN lands first (on main), the copy is left with no upstream subscription.
   • ✅ (a) Fix it in lite-07 ranges, not here. That quest now holds the hang as an acceptance test with its repro and root cause, and the fix direction: keep the Subscribe Stream open with the planned SUBSCRIBE_FINISH design, and no covered FIN.
   • (b) Build the stream-stays-open change here.
8. One-group SUBSCRIBE recovery. Lite-07 recovers a dropped group with a SUBSCRIBE covering only that group, with no max delay, as its FETCH replacement. It is issued only after the existing subscription officially marks that group DROP, so no group is received twice. Tests: a group still in flight sends no second SUBSCRIBE, and a dropped group is recovered exactly once. This is what lets Remove FETCH from lite-07 remove FETCH from Rust and JS together, per the 2026-10-25 decision.
   • ✅ (a) Record it in lite-07 ranges.
   • (b) Build it here.

Validation

On 7be063079f (main merged into 092d075c8d):

• quest gate nix develop --command just check passed: lint, markdown, quest, shell, gh, and all 9524 Rust tests. quest check --base origin/main passed.
• On 092d075c8d: quest gate nix develop --command just test interop --all passed.
• On 092d075c8d: the resume model (MOQ_RESUME_CASES=3000, seeds 12345, 777, and 4242) still fails only in moq-dev/moq#7542's known pattern. Each minimal case is an unranged reader with an hour budget whose route writes only group 11 and ends. Groups 0 to 10 come back dropped. Neither fix here applies to it: holds_window needs a bounded window, and these readers never fill a head. Tracked in The resume model passes its long run again. The 64-case default inside just check passes.

Review

mechanical fix by codex / Codex: Merged base, preserving PR ranges and following base subscription delay API rename; passed cargo build --locked -p moq-net -p moq-c; cargo test --locked -p moq-net -p moq-c; rustfmt --check --edition 2024 on four re·solved/updated files (native dependency paths configured). (head 96a50df)

Codex gpt-6.1-sol, medium effort, via quest review --base origin/main, session 01a19e52. It is a new session because main changed the reviewer's instruction files. The earlier session 01a19db9 reviewed 4070d495f4 and 559da3dfe5; its last round had no findings.

• Round 1 on 789ac6e7c4, 1 finding. A head fill judged staleness against the whole cache (Servable::ALL), so with headless group 0, a newer group 1, and 0..1 at zero max delay, group 0 was given up as Old. Fixed in cc34b0bd25: head fills leave staleness to the cursor (Fetching::unjudged). New test a_head_fill_is_judged_against_the_reader_window.
• Round 2 on cc34b0bd25, 1 finding. A head still asked never went stale, so a bounded read waited on its fill after a newer in-window group superseded it. Fixed in f2eeb3359c: expire_heads judges outstanding heads against the cursor's window and budget, and writes stale ones off. New test a_head_still_asked_goes_stale_within_the_window, which fails without the fix.
• Round 3 on f2eeb3359c, 1 finding. A head whose headless copy the cache evicted was never judged. Fixed in b1c22fcd6e: every head still asked is judged whether or not the cache holds it. The test gains an eviction case, which fails with the old gating.
• Round 4 on b1c22fcd6e: no findings.
• Round 5 on 092d075c8d: no findings. It reviewed the fixes for the online findings on b1c22fcd6e:
  • pullfrog: head order, fixed. New test answered_heads_go_out_in_the_subscription_order, which fails without the fix.
  • Automated OpenAI review P2: route-switch hang, fixed. New test a_read_range_ends_after_a_switch_to_a_repeating_route, which fails without the fix.
  • CodeRabbit: the js.md rule, partly adopted. The reasons are in the thread.
• The head 7be063079f only adds a conflict-free merge of main on top of 092d075c8d, so round 5 covers it.

Follow-ups

Both are already planned on main (moq-dev/moq#7642):

• Resume-model regression on main from moq-dev/moq#7542: The resume model passes its long run again.
• A relay drops a group of a history SUBSCRIBE on a fetched copy (fetch_only's fetched_copy fixture, draft-22, 1..3 gets only group 2): folded into A resume more than one group behind never hangs.

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[kixelated]

Design change: track::Consumer::fetch_group stays public as the single-group fetch (maintainer, 2026-11-02: "We can have a public fetch_group for a single group."). This supersedes decision 1 recorded on this PR, which removed it. Its callers keep it: moq-c group requests, moq-ffi fills, transcode, the relay's /fetch, moq fetch, and hls.

Reason: the removal attempt surfaced two problems that a single-group fetch already avoids.

• On-demand local tracks: a one-range read asks a Requests handler only below a declared start_at.
• Past the live edge: a read of a future group waits, so /fetch?group=99 answers 504 instead of 404.

So the earlier blockers 2 and 3 are dropped, and the crate-private removal is not pushed.

Also recorded (maintainer, 2026-11-02): "lite-07 can issue a one group SUBSCRIBE as a FETCH replacement (no max-delay) if an existing SUBSCRIBE had it dropped", "and only when the group is officially marked DROP so we don't receive two copies of it." This is not implemented yet. See ## Decisions needed in the PR body: the back-to-back lite-07 hang involves no DROP, so this replacement does not reach it.

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[pullfrog]

ℹ️ Minor suggestions only. One ordering inconsistency inline; the rest of the change reads correctly.

Reviewed changes

• Bounded reads end through routes (model/resume.rs): a front's logical reader now judges its copy's window exhausted across the logical Delivered records and returns Ok(None), so a remote bounded read stops instead of parking. Cursor::is_exhausted takes &[&Delivered] and Delivered::gaps_in_all intersects them, so a copy accounts for groups the logical readers handed out.
• Head fill (model/track.rs): a bounded window that finds a group missing its first frames asks a frame-0 fill (Heads, ask_head, poll_heads, expire_heads, give_up_heads, next_head, forget_heads_below) and hands the filled group out instead of returning Lagged; a refused head is given up like an unfillable miss.
• Head staleness (Fetching::unjudged, new judges_drift): the cursor judges an answered head against its own window on hand-out (poll_stale) and an outstanding one in expire_heads, eviction included, rather than against the whole cache.
• First bounded moq-transport request (ietf/subscriber.rs): a request whose ranges all have an absolute start and end now asks TRACK_STATUS before subscribing; a wholly-below-Largest-Object read is served by FETCH and never SUBSCRIBEs, so a finished track is not refused.
• Docs / tests: MIGRATE.md records the three behavior changes; the fetch-range quest is deleted with links retargeted and lite.md resized; range_read.rs is added and fetch_only/subscribe_ranges/moq-c tests are updated for the new end behavior.

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Re the automated review's P2 (review, "Complete bounded reads can still hang after a route switch"): confirmed and fixed in 092d075.

a_read_range_ends_after_a_switch_to_a_repeating_route reproduced it. A 0..1 read takes group 0 from route A, then the route switches to B, which has either nothing or only a repeat of group 0. Before the fix the read stayed Pending, in both arrival and ordered reads. The replaced copy was never bounded (until == None), so Copy::retains returned Wait and let_go kept the read open.

The fix: when the reader already holds every group of its bounded, resolved window (Retain::holds_window), an unbounded replaced copy now counts as Keep rather than Wait. The read ends. The copy is still kept, so a widening judges it again. The test then widens to 0..2 and reads group 1, which only A has. This doesn't depend on recovery leases. A copy still holding a group the reader lacks keeps the read waiting, as before.

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[kixelated]

Automated review by review (OpenAI)

Reviewed commit: 7be0630

The earlier route-switch hang is fixed: completed windows no longer wait on replaced copies, while recovery and later widening retain those copies. The independent head-ordering finding is also fixed.

• P2 — Keep bounded completion separate from track finish (quest/m1/subscribe-ranges/js.md:22–23). The rewritten plan says a covered bounded subscription sends SUBSCRIBE_FINISH. For a history range on a still-live track, that would falsely declare the track’s final group. The linked settled design (lite.md:145–153) completes bounded ranges from received groups/drop information and reserves SUBSCRIBE_FINISH for actual track completion. Correct this instruction while retaining the open-stream behavior. This is distinct from the earlier interim-reopen wording discussion.

The runtime fixes are localized and reuse the existing accounting. Static incremental review only; I did not run tests or interop checks.

[pullfrog]

✅ No new issues found.

Reviewed changes

The delta since the prior pullfrog review (b1c22fc) is commit 092d075c8 plus a conflict-free main merge (7be063079). Both online findings on the previous head are addressed, each with a test that fails without its fix.

• Ended bounded reads after a route switch (model/resume.rs): a replaced-but-unbounded copy is now kept rather than waited on once the reader's own Delivered covers its bounded, settled window (Retain::holds_window), so a read whose whole window was handed out ends instead of parking; a widening re-judges the copy. Ends only when the reader's own record covers the entire resolved window, and window.end() is None for open or unsettled windows, so the safe direction holds. Covers the OpenAI P2 report.
• Heads in the subscription order (model/track.rs): next_head now switches on subscription.order (next/next_back), matching next_owed and next_filled. Covers the prior pullfrog finding.
• Lite-07 mirror note (quest/m1/subscribe-ranges/js.md): reworded into one coherent bounded-completion rule, with SUBSCRIBE_FINISH as the target and the interim reopen behavior until it lands.
• Tests: a_read_range_ends_after_a_switch_to_a_repeating_route (ordered x repeats) and answered_heads_go_out_in_the_subscription_order, both of which fail without their fix.

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Follow-up Comments

End a fully delivered bounded read while the replacement is pending.

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End a fully delivered bounded read while the replacement is pending.

If a reader delivers group 0 from range 0..1 and then switches to a route whose track info remains unanswered, Sub::Pending makes Reader::exhausted return false. The replaced copy is kept, but the next read remains pending even though the reader has every group in its window. Allow completion without a ready serving subscription when the settled window is fully delivered and no backfill remains. The new test covers only answered replacement copies. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

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Review comment at @rs/moq-net/src/model/resume.rs at line 1615:
Update Reader::exhausted so a pending replacement subscription does not block
completion when the settled window is fully delivered and no backfill remains.
Preserve the existing behavior when groups remain undelivered or backfill is
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Remove the stray apostrophe.

Line 21 ends the Markdown link with an extra '. Remove it so the documentation renders correctly.

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Drop the head fill for a convicted group on the ordered path.

The stale branch of poll_next_with skips a group whose drift budget has expired. It leaves that group's head fill in heads.fetching. expire_heads runs only from poll_recv_with, so the ordered path never removes this fill. While the fill is pending, awaits_fill() stays true. If no later group is ready, the read returns Pending until the fill settles. A bounded read can wait on a fill that the ordered cursor no longer uses. The wait can be indefinite if the fill never settles.

Drop the fill when the stale branch moves the floor. A later read that still needs the group asks for its head again.

Suggested fix

 					self.seek_pending.insert(group.sequence, group.content());
 					floor = group.sequence.saturating_add(1);
+					self.forget_heads_below(Some(floor));
 					continue;

Add a regression test for an ordered bounded read. The test should ask for a head, convict that group as stale, and check that the read ends without an answer from the fill handler.

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Update the stale-group branch in poll_next_with to remove that group’s obsolete
head fill when advancing the floor, so the ordered read no longer waits for it;
add a regression test confirming a bounded read ends without the fill handler
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quest land watch: the merge queue removed this pull request at 7be0630 because it conflicts with main (merge_conflict).

The land fixer works on it in the background, and the watcher re-enqueues it at the back of the queue once it is fixed or judged flaky, or hands it back here with what it needs.

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[moq-bot]

quest land watch: armed auto-merge on this pull request at 96a50df, so it joins the back of the merge queue once its required checks pass, with the land fixer's fix (codex / Codex): Merged base, preserving PR ranges and following base subscription delay API rename; passed cargo build --locked -p moq-net -p moq-c; cargo test --locked -p moq-net -p moq-c; rustfmt --check --edition 2024 on four re·solved/updated files (native dependency paths configured)..

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