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Claims quest/m1/socket/py.md.

Decisions

• ✅ 2026-11-05, maintainer: TCP sessions are one group with many frames, joined with SUBSCRIBE plus FILL/JOIN; sessions with groups skip a group that will never arrive. "Sockets that support groups need to support skipping groups anyway." It answers this PR's Waiting item on how a socket session fails loudly when an IETF publisher refuses the range FETCH, and replaces the earlier "fail loudly" decision below.
  • ✅ A track session (a group per message) keeps today's behavior: its reader skips a group the track will never deliver (refused, dropped, or evicted), as it already skips one a hop's cache reclaimed after 30 s unread. No strict socket reader and no copy abort. TrackStream's docs, doc/concept/socket.md and the Python README say so.
  • ✅ A tcp session's reader joins its half's only group live. Over moq-transport that is a SUBSCRIBE plus the current group's head: a draft-18 joining FETCH, or a fill from draft 20, not a multi-group range FETCH. The code did not do this: both protocols subscribed from group 0, so a tcp reader sent a filterless SUBSCRIBE with no joining FETCH and relied on our publishers serving that from the start of the latest group, which a spec-following publisher does not. tcp now uses the live join (the subscription main used before this PR); track keeps its group-0 start. Disabling the joining FETCH fails the_first_tcp_writes_survive_a_late_subscribe_answer on moq-transport-18, so its moq-transport variants cover the join.
  • ✅ The TCP burst test keeps its moq-transport variants (the earlier reading below is confirmed).
  • Not chosen: strict socket readers that fail instead of skipping (option 1), aborting the IETF copy when the FETCH below a group-0 join is refused (option 2), and documenting the skip for every session (option 3), which now applies only to track sessions.
• ✅ 2026-11-05, maintainer: moq-net never speaks moq-transport to itself; proper IETF publishers serve multi-group FETCH. It answers this PR's earlier Waiting item on the IETF socket burst.
  • ✅ Keep the subscriber's single range FETCH for the groups below the answer's Largest. Third-party IETF publishers are assumed to serve a FETCH that spans groups.
  • ✅ Our publisher stays single-group for FETCH, unchanged.
  • ✅ Don't test moq-net socket bursts against moq-net over moq-transport. socket::the_first_burst_survives_a_late_subscribe_answer now runs over lite-07 only. The interop's Python socket lane runs only in the normal (lite-07) pass, and the --versions ietf pass no longer records it. IETF coverage that does not depend on our publisher answering a multi-group FETCH stays: the TCP burst test (one group) and the steady-state track and TCP session pairings across lite and moq-transport-18. The JS encoder test still checks the one range FETCH below Largest on drafts 18, 20 and 22, and in Rust a_zero_start_joins_unfiltered_without_a_joining_fetch checks the filterless join while a_refused_range_fetch_reports_every_owed_group_dropped checks the one range FETCH.
  • A refused FETCH that would make a socket reader skip messages must fail the socket session loudly. Replaced by the decision above: track readers skip, and tcp readers never need that FETCH.
  • Options considered: accept the refusal and shrink the tests (chosen), allow multi-group FETCH in our publisher, pin the start at SUBSCRIBE arrival.
  • Reading of "socket bursts", confirmed by the maintainer: the TCP burst test keeps its moq-transport variants, since a TCP session is one group and its burst needs no range FETCH.
• ✅ 2026-11-05, maintainer: an IETF subscriber starting at group 0 joins live with no filter and fetches the rest. A known start of group 0 with no end is a filterless SUBSCRIBE plus one range FETCH from group 0 up to the subscription's live edge (SUBSCRIBE_OK's Largest), the same on every draft. It replaces the explicit absolute {0, 0} this PR used to send, and reaffirms the 2026-11-04 comment. Why: draft 20 has no absolute {0, 0} that differs from no filter, and the maintainer's rule for moq-transport FETCH/SUBSCRIBE is the simplest uniform path, refusing awkward cases rather than adding per-draft fallbacks. FETCH stays one range FETCH per run, as decided 2026-10-28 in moq-dev/moq#7204. Not chosen: the explicit {0, 0} on every draft.
  • Applied to both adapters this PR changes, Rust and JS. The range FETCH is the copies' existing fill path (one FETCH per run of missing groups), so no new FETCH code was added.
  • Starts above 0 stay an explicit absolute start on every draft. A start of 0 with an end (Rust only; JS sends no end) stays an absolute range, which every draft can spell.
  • The maintainer's wording says "with no max-age". Applied regardless of max age, since a finite max age only limits which groups the copy's readers ask to fill. Keeping the absolute {0, 0} for that case alone would bring back the draft-20 spelling.
• ✅ 2026-11-05, maintainer: remove the draft-20 present-but-empty LOCATION_FILTER rule, both encode and decode, so no draft has a spelling of its own. It replaces this PR's earlier "Draft-20 presence rule (settled here)" entry. filter.rs and the SUBSCRIBE decoders are back to main: an absent filter and a present, empty one on draft 20 both decode as unfiltered, as the draft defines.
• ✅ 2026-11-04, maintainer: preserve filterless live joins. A filterless IETF SUBSCRIBE without a fill keeps joining live; it does not replay retained history from group 0. The socket's initial-burst fix must not change that default for third-party readers or relay caches. Not chosen: accepting unrestricted starts at zero. Unchanged by the 2026-11-05 decision: as a publisher, a filterless SUBSCRIBE is still a live join.
• ✅ 2026-11-04, maintainer: add an awaitable ready(size) to MoqGroupProducer in this PR. It is a general group capability, forwarded through every SDK and tested with a slow reader, so a fast writer waits instead of evicting it. It came from the local Codex review (round 1, high): the bindings' socket TCP write half had no backpressure. Not chosen: an async write on the socket stream handles only, or landing with the limit documented.
• ✅ 2026-11-04, maintainer: no release backport of the IETF prefix-loss fix.
• The Python/FFI surface and socket naming remain the settled plan.

What moq-dev/moq#7884 must follow

The JS socket PR is iterated after this one lands.

• Its JS IETF subscriber keeps this PR's joinFilter: a start of group 0 is { kind: "unfiltered" } with no fill, and the copy's fills fetch the groups below Largest. No explicit absolute {0, 0} and no draft-20 presence rule in subscribe.ts.
• Its track socket readers start at group 0 through that path, and skip a group that will never arrive (refused, dropped, evicted), with that documented, as in Rust. No strict reader and no loud failure.
• Its tcp socket readers join live, not from group 0: over moq-transport, a SUBSCRIBE plus a joining FETCH (draft 18) or a fill (draft 20+) for the one group's head, never a multi-group range FETCH.
• Its socket burst tests and any interop socket lane run over moq-lite only, except a TCP burst test, which may keep moq-transport variants.

Problem

Python had no binding for the settled Rust socket endpoint and session API. Real-relay tests also showed lost initial bursts over IETF. Draft 18 forced a live join even for a known absolute start, and a subscriber asking for group 0 sent no filter, which publishers rightly serve as a live join. Nothing then fetched the groups the live join skipped.

Approach

• Bind the existing Rust endpoint, incoming dial handles, and TCP/track streams through moq-ffi. Retain the original subscribed consumers and cancellation lifetimes; reuse group and track handles.
• Add moq.socket beside origin, and update the Swift, Kotlin, Dart, Go and C/C++ generated bindings and wrapper consumers to match. The independent JS socket port stays in moq-dev/moq#7884.
• Start fresh track socket readers at group 0; tcp readers join their half's only group live, from its first frame. In the Rust and JS IETF subscribers, a start of group 0 with no end sends a filterless SUBSCRIBE with no fill and no joining FETCH. Our publishers serve that from the start of the latest group, and the copy's fills fetch the groups below SUBSCRIBE_OK's Largest with one range FETCH, which third-party publishers are assumed to serve and ours refuse past one group. Any other known start is an explicit absolute start on every draft, with no fill or joining FETCH, and keeps the prefix that arrives before the answer. JS sends that start open-ended, because its REQUEST_UPDATE carries no range: a finite end would hold the upstream copy short once another reader widened the track's demand. Rust keeps its range updates. Publishers honor explicit absolute starts on every draft, including draft 18, and serve an omitted filter as a live join, as before.
• JS now omits LOCATION_FILTER for an unfiltered Subscribe, as Rust already did. Before, draft 18 spelled it as Absolute Start {0, 0}, which no longer means a live join on our publishers.
• Add MoqGroupProducer::ready(size), an async call over group::Producer::poll_ready. It waits until a frame of size bytes fits a window ahead of the fastest reader, until a reader holds the group, or until the group closes. It fails with Closed after abort. The group producer lives inside a kio::Bridge. Concurrent calls share its one waker, because the group keeps a single writer waker. Every other group call also locks through the bridge, so a wake it causes reaches a foreign continuation only after the lock is released. Without that, an inline continuation (Kotlin Dispatchers.Unconfined, for example) deadlocked on the lock. Python, Swift and Go wrap it; Kotlin and Dart alias the generated class (the Dart bindings were regenerated with the pinned generator); C++ generates it at build time. moq-c has no group API.
• Add Python/Rust relay interop in both roles and protocols; coverage for cancellation, refusal, lifetimes, FIN/RST and protocol separation; and benchmarks over endpoint count × sessions per endpoint.

Impact

• Add socket Endpoint, incoming TCP/track dial handles, TcpStream, and TrackStream in the bindings. Streams expose the existing producer/consumer plus peer/session. Python uses from moq import socket; each SDK follows its existing namespace and casing. Kotlin uses end() for forced endpoint shutdown and AutoCloseable close() for handle release, as broadcasts do.
• New in every binding: GroupProducer.ready(size) (Python await, Swift async throws, Go Ready(ctx, size), Kotlin suspend, Dart Future, C++ awaitable). Await it before each write so the writer waits for its fastest reader, though not for slower ones; existing writers are unchanged and still shed the group's front when they outpace their readers. The MIGRATE notes, the Python README and doc/concept/socket.md describe it.
• Dropping an unfinished FFI group writer resets with Unroutable rather than leaking Rust's programming-error Dropped. Finished groups retain clean FIN.
• IETF wire: a SUBSCRIBE without a Location Filter or fill still joins live for third-party readers and relay caches. Our subscribers send a group-0 start as that filterless SUBSCRIBE plus a range FETCH below Largest; a third-party publisher that answers ranges serves the history, and ours refuse ranges past one group. Explicit absolute starts above 0 now include their requested prefix on drafts 18, 20 and 22; previously, draft-18 publishers ignored them. No draft-specific LOCATION_FILTER spelling: on draft 20, a present, empty one decodes as unfiltered, as on main.
• No new wire field and no package version bump. The hidden endpoint and session-track naming remain unchanged. Socket evidence covers lite-07 and IETF; pre-07 capability behavior stays with moq-dev/moq#7888.
• MIGRATE.md notes are under Unreleased in each affected package. Regenerate bindings and rebuild their matching native library together; existing socket callers need no source migration. doc/concept/standard.md records the filterless group-0 join and the explicit starts.

Alternatives

Reuse the Rust handshake and existing handles rather than duplicate the protocol or add message/read/write convenience methods. Concrete incoming handle types represent Rust's protocol generics across UniFFI. An absolute socket range alone did not fix the reproduced burst loss; the generic Rust and JS IETF adapters needed correction. The related test-only moq-dev/moq#7879 did not fix that burst. The explicit {0, 0} and the draft-20 presence rule were replaced by the 2026-11-05 decision above.

Checks

On 2db1866909, through quest gate in the pinned dev shell:

• just ci: passed (exit 0). Swift was not run: there is no Swift toolchain on this host, so CI covers it.
• The three new regressions fail without their fixes: a_zero_start_drops_a_tail_cut_after_object_0 and a_refused_headless_group_does_not_stall_an_ordered_reader (Rust), and a reader in sequence order with no delay budget skips headless groups (JS).
• Not run locally: the interop matrix. The wire format is unchanged; the only new behaviour is reporting a group dropped when a third-party publisher's mid-group stream is refused, which our own publishers never send.

Review

mechanical fix by quest land watch: merged main at 597fe8bacdf2a0d17f77c95d5e3375e27c07b6bc with the quest merge driver (head eb987d5)

Head d7c6ac7899 merges origin/main after #7806 onto 6e67125 (both sides kept in c/moq/MIGRATE.md and rs/moq-ffi/uniffi.toml), then ports this PR's two tests to #7806's route API: the IETF warm-relay fixture in rs/moq-net/src/ietf/publisher.rs and the forged broadcast in py/moq-rs/tests/test_socket.py. Test-only; no library code changed. just ci origin/main passes, and tests/test_socket.py passes (10).

Head 6e67125881 only merges origin/main (after #7942) onto 66da6e5, keeping both Unreleased rs/moq-ffi/MIGRATE.md sections; no code conflicted. just ci origin/main passes on it.

Head 66da6e509f only merges origin/main onto the reviewed 2db1866, keeping both Unreleased js/net/MIGRATE.md sections; no code conflicted. cargo test -p moq-net --features async (3520) and @moq/net check and test (2930) pass, so the rounds below still cover it.

Codex gpt-6.1-sol (medium), quest review --base origin/main, final round 2 on 2db1866909: no findings. Round 1 on ddc0cc928b found that the JS ObjectIdGap headless path (a stream starting past object 0 without FIRST_OBJECT, outside a join) also stopped the stream without dropping its group; fixed in 2db1866, and the JS regression covers it.

Online findings on 187296dc82, all fixed:

• Codex and pullfrog: largest.object > 0 missed a Largest at object 0, though that object was already sent. A group-0 live join now marks the Largest group headless whenever Largest exists; whole groups and FIRST_OBJECT streams still pass.
• pullfrog: a refused headless stream left its group owed, so a reader in sequence order (the track socket session) waited on it forever; the same refusal served a tcp join whose fill failed. Both Rust refusal sites now report the group dropped (NotFound), and so do the JS twin's three headless refusals in handleGroup, which had the same stall.

Earlier rounds: Codex reviewed 187296d clean (round 3 of the prior session), after fixing a FIRST_OBJECT finding in round 2; pullfrog's and the maintainer's earlier threads are answered by the 2026-11-05 decisions.

Follow-ups

• Keep the known flaky draft-22: a wider fill is refused in %s order quarantined, with both its refusal and live-delivery assertions intact. Its plan is ietf-wider-fill, which records 30/200 failures on unchanged main from moq-dev/moq#7860 and the matching quarantine merged in moq-dev/moq#7851.
• The JS the PROBE stream sends the viewers' target to an Increase peer test timed out once under full just ci load and passed 3/3 alone. No quest or open PR tracks it.

(Written by Claude Opus 5.5)

[kixelated]

Design change: per the maintainer decision of 2026-11-04 (preserve filterless live joins), a SUBSCRIBE without a Location Filter or fill joins live again on Rust and JS publishers, as on main. Unrestricted starts at zero are no longer accepted. A known zero start is now an explicit absolute {0, 0} on every draft: the draft-18 Absolute Start tag, draft-22 type 0x02, and on draft 20 a present, empty LOCATION_FILTER. Draft 20 defines that as equivalent to no filter, so only presence tells the two apart: both SUBSCRIBE decoders read the present empty value as {0, 0}, and only an absent filter is filterless. No new wire field. The local review restarts with quest review --new.

(Written by Claude Opus 5.5)

[kixelated]

Maintainer decision (2026-11-04, /quest-unblock), replacing the "Decisions needed" choice between "start at zero" and "preserve filterless live joins":

• As an IETF publisher: an incoming filterless SUBSCRIBE starts at the latest group (live join), unchanged for third-party readers and relay caches.
• As an IETF subscriber: when our start is Some(0) and max-age is None, send SUBSCRIBE plus a FILL/FETCH to start at zero, rather than relying on the publisher interpreting a filterless SUBSCRIBE as absolute zero.

Apply this in both adapters (this PR and #7884), record it in the quest Plan, and remove the item.

(Written by Claude Opus 5.5)

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✅ No new issues found.

Reviewed changes

This run re-reviewed the commits since the prior pullfrog review at 187296dc8: the origin/main merge e3f1c8cef (no review, base churn only) and the three commits 2880a12e5, ddc0cc928, 2db186690, which change 3 files in rs/moq-net and js/net.

• A Largest at object 0 marks its group headless: the largest.object > 0 filter is gone, since Largest's object is inclusive and object 0 may already be gone; a whole group or a FIRST_OBJECT stream still passes, and a_zero_start_drops_a_tail_cut_after_object_0 covers the object-1 tail.
• Refused headless groups are reported dropped in Rust: both OpenGroup refusal sites (the settled-fill pass-through and ClaimTail with no head) now call track.drop_groups(sequence..sequence + 1, NotFound) before refusing the stream, so ordered readers advance; a_refused_headless_group_does_not_stall_an_ordered_reader subscribes before the answer with the track socket's ascending, no-delay subscription.
• The JS twin reports the same drops: handleGroup gains a dropHeadless() helper at its three headless refusals (no stitchable head, an empty stream without FIRST_OBJECT, and the ObjectIdGap path), and a reader in sequence order with no delay budget skips headless groups covers the ordered read.
• Verified locally: the three Rust regressions and js/net's join/filter suites pass; drop_groups clears its record when a visible group is re-created for the sequence, and the new mark cannot apply to tcp sessions, whose subscription start is relative.

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The PR and base independently prepend sections under Unreleased in rs/moq-ffi/MIGRATE.md. Preserve both Socket sessions and Decoders refuse a disabled rendition when merging base. The failure log reports:

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I reproduced the conflict and verified that retaining both sections passes git diff --check --cached. However, cd swift && swift test exits 127 with /bin/bash: line 1: swift: command not found. The required validation cannot be completed here. cargo test -p moq-net -p moq-ffi -p moq-cli was started and interrupted during compilation after this blocker was established; it did not reach test results. The trial merge was aborted and the PR branch remains at its pinned head.

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codex / Codex land fixer: Merge conflict in rs/moq-ffi/MIGRATE.md is mechanically resolvable, but required validation cannot run: `cd swift && swift test` exits 127: `/bin/bash: line 1: swift: command not found`.. Recommendation: Merge base preserving both independent Unreleased migration sections, then build and test all touched packages on hosts with the required toolchains, including Swift.

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The failure log reports:

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Both conflicts can preserve both additions: retain the socket and route migration sections, and retain the MoqSocketEndpoint.close and MoqRoute.instance_id Kotlin renames. A local trial resolution succeeded, but required validation could not be completed. swift build --package-path swift and swift test --package-path swift both returned /bin/bash: line 1: swift: command not found. bun run --cwd js/net build also failed with tsc: command not found; bun test --cwd js/net reported missing dependencies including [at]moq/signals. cargo test --locked -p moq-net -p moq-ffi -p moq-cli was started and interrupted during dependency compilation after the Swift validation blocker was confirmed. The trial merge was aborted and the PR branch remains at its pinned head.

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codex / Codex land fixer: Merge conflicts in c/moq/MIGRATE.md and rs/moq-ffi/uniffi.toml are mechanically resolvable, but required validation cannot run: `swift build --package-path swift` and `swift test --package-path swift`. Recommendation: Merge base retaining both migration sections and both Kotlin renames, then build and test all affected packages in an environment with Swift/macOS and the required dependencies.

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