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Problem

Every REQUEST_ERROR moq-net and @moq/net write carries retry_interval: 0, which draft-18 through draft-22 read as "SHOULD NOT be retried". A request refused for a transient reason, such as a router answering Unroutable before the publisher has come up, cannot tell the subscriber to try again later, so a spec-following client gives up.

Approach

The moq-transport encoder picks the Retry Interval from the error it already maps to a code. A refusal that asking again may pass invites a retry after 1 second; a verdict sends 0, as before.

• One classification. The resume path's unroutable / retryable helpers move onto Error as unroutable(), transient() and retryable() (retryable is either, the old route_failed). The resume path and the encoder read the same methods, so "may a retry pass" has one definition, mirrored by routeFailed in js/net.
• One constructor. RequestError::refuse(err, kind, reason, version) sets both the code and the interval, and buffer_error uses it. Every refusal built from an error goes through it, including the three paths the review found writing 0: resume_failed, the track-refused FETCH (PrepareFetch::poll) and the track-refused TRACK_STATUS. The GOAWAY cutoff refusal, the reserved-namespace refusal and a refused SUBSCRIBE_NAMESPACE update use it too.
• The code must leave the request open too. The interval is non-zero only when the error is retryable and the code is INTERNAL_ERROR, DOES_NOT_EXIST or GOING_AWAY. This is a filter on the wire code, not a second error list. To the resume path, any Error::Session(_) means the session failed under a copy and says nothing about the content. A refusal can still carry a verdict that way, though: a token renewal refused with SessionError::Unauthorized encodes UNAUTHORIZED, and inviting a retry there would be wrong (two existing renewal tests caught it). An unroutable offer (PUBLISH, PUBLISH_NAMESPACE, SUBSCRIBE_NAMESPACE) reads UNINTERESTED, which tells the peer to stop offering, so it stays 0 as well. A route loop's PUBLISH_NAMESPACE refusal is the case that rule protects.
• The interval reuses auth::RETRY_INITIAL (1s; RETRY_INITIAL in js/net/src/auth_session.ts), the backoff moq-net already starts from when a refusal may pass. No new constant, and our own PUBLISH_NAMESPACE retry (Refused::Until) honors it unchanged.
• Rendezvous. A missing publisher a rendezvous asked to wait for is still TIMEOUT, which is classified like any other timeout and sends 0, as on main. js/net's #failed keeps that parity.
• JS. The internal Refusal gains retryable?: boolean, set from routeFailed where #failed turns an error into a refusal. #failed maps every session and stream verdict to its request condition through refusedAs, as to_code does (a stream GoingAway is GOING_AWAY, not INTERNAL_ERROR), and writeRefusal applies the same code filter as retry_interval, so both write the same code and interval for the same failure.

Tests: only_a_refusal_that_may_pass_invites_a_retry checks the interval for every error and request kind on every draft. a_track_refusal_that_may_pass_invites_a_retry checks the wire for a track refused on SUBSCRIBE, FETCH and TRACK_STATUS, and the JS test checks code and interval on TRACK_STATUS for every session and stream verdict, a stream GoingAway and a transient session failure.

Impact

• Public API: none. Error gains only pub(crate) methods, and reject / abort are unchanged from main.
• Wire: REQUEST_ERROR's Retry Interval is 1000 for a refusal that may pass (DOES_NOT_EXIST for an unroutable request, GOING_AWAY, or INTERNAL_ERROR from a failed session or transport), and 0 otherwise. That includes the GOAWAY-cutoff refusal and a missing broadcast, whose existing tests now expect 1000. No encoding change.
• An application cannot choose a per-request interval. That was the cost of the maintainer's pick below.

Decisions

Maintainer decision (2026-11-06, /quest-complete) on whether a moq-transport-only retry hint may add public API and model state. Root AGENTS.md says never to add API for functionality only moq-transport has, and rs/moq-net/AGENTS.md says such a feature gets the least code inside the IETF layer and nothing in the model:

• ✅ Build the retry hint in the IETF layer only, perhaps by classifying errors as "retryable" in general.
• Keep the model-level Refusal as an exception to the rules.
• Drop the PR.

So the public Refusal, its fields in model/origin.rs and model/track.rs, and the impl Into<Refusal> signatures are gone. That also makes the earlier MIGRATE.md and source-compatibility findings moot.

Alternatives

• A public Refusal { error, retry_after } beside the error (the previous revision): per-request control, but public API and model state for a moq-transport-only field. Not chosen; see Decisions.
• An Error::Retry { err, after } wrapper (the first revision): the model classified the outer variant, so a hint changed what a refusal meant.

Follow-ups

• Overload: the over-limit PUBLISH refusal (EXCESSIVE_LOAD, ietf/subscriber/tracks.rs) still writes 0, which draft-18 §10.6.2 says SHOULD carry a Retry Interval. Maintainer decision (2026-11-06, /quest-merge): it stays out of this PR and becomes a follow-up quest the coordinator plans separately. Pre-existing and not error-derived; see this comment.

• Multi-hop: a received non-zero interval on a SUBSCRIBE refusal is dropped (ietf/subscriber/tracks.rs, where only error_code is kept). Since the interval is now derived from the error, a relay forwarding an upstream refusal re-derives it from the decoded error, which from_code maps lossily (DOES_NOT_EXIST decodes as NotFound, so an upstream "retry later" becomes 0 at the first hop).

Validation

Merged origin/main (d505e963de) in b20eaa8c4b, no rebase. The one conflict, #failed in js/net/src/ietf/publisher.ts, keeps main's new resolved rendezvous rule beside this PR's verdict mapping and retryable. 360b092342 then maps stream verdicts too (Pullfrog's parity note).

The author has read access only, so per quest context no test from the head ran locally; tests are left to CI. The PR touches no build.rs, Cargo manifest, lockfile or package.json, so compiling it runs no PR code:

• cargo clippy -p moq-net --all-targets --all-features -- -D warnings on the merge: passed.
• bunx tsc --noEmit -p js/net and bunx biome check js/net/src/ietf/: passed (deps installed with --ignore-scripts).
• quest check --fix: 586 documents ok.

Review

Reviewer: Codex (quest review --base origin/main --branch feat/net-refusal-retry-interval, installed quest), gpt-6.1-sol, medium effort, round 1 of a new session over the whole branch. Head 360b092342f0c50834ea57491a0f751a453e2097. No findings.

Online findings on 39e9a3e83e:

• Pullfrog parity note: a JS stream verdict refused as INTERNAL_ERROR where Rust writes its own code (GoingAway as GOING_AWAY). Fixed in 360b092342.
• kixelated's automated review: the TRACK_STATUS table lacked Session Timeout and Unsupported. Added in 360b092342, with stream Unauthorized, DeliveryTimeout and MalformedTrack.

Online findings on 3334629f96:

• pullfrog thread and kixelated's automated review [P2]: JS invited a retry for a session verdict. Fixed in 39e9a3e83e.
• pullfrog: EXCESSIVE_LOAD refusal still 0. Out of scope by maintainer decision; see Follow-ups.

(Written by Claude Opus 5.5)

[kixelated]

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Reviewed head: 79da2cfb941daf26595758abb98c54fbab705bb1.

[P2] Preserve recovery classification when adding a retry hint. The new Error::retry wraps the error, but model/resume.rs's retryable and unroutable still match the outer variant. For example, when a carried-instance copy has delivered data, aborting it with Error::GoingAway lets Front::track_ended re-query the source; adding .retry(...) instead takes the terminal-abort branch and permanently ends the logical track (model/front.rs:568-581). The hint therefore changes the failure's meaning before it reaches the wire. Preserve the underlying classification and add a hinted-versus-bare recovery regression test.

Direction: Revise before merging. Prefer keeping this IETF-only metadata at the IETF refusal boundary: root AGENTS.md forbids new API exclusively for moq-transport, and rs/moq-net/AGENTS.md requires features without a moq-lite counterpart to stay out of the model. The public Error::Retry design conflicts with that constraint.

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Walkthrough

The changes add optional retry delays to Rust and JavaScript refusals. Origin and track state retain retry hints, and publisher response paths carry them into SUBSCRIBE, FETCH, and TRACK_STATUS request errors. Encoders round positive fractional-millisecond delays up to whole milliseconds and use zero when no delay is present. Tests cover refusal conversion, retry propagation, and encoded intervals.

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to ee4ee

Refusals can optionally carry a retry interval, and error classification and wire codes still come from the plain error. No concrete merge-blocking risk remains.

Pre-merge checks: 4 · 1

Failed checks: 1 inconclusive

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Title check		The title identifies retry hints in REQUEST_ERROR as the main change.
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15452-15455: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Quick win

Assert independent refusal codes.

The expected code comes from the same mapping used to encode the refusal. If that mapping returns INTERNAL_ERROR for a wrapped authorization refusal, this assertion still passes. Give each test case an explicit expected code.

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-			for (err, interval) in [
-				(Error::Unroutable, 0),
-				(Error::Unroutable.retry(ms(1500)), 1500),
-				(Error::Unroutable.retry(std::time::Duration::from_micros(1)), 1),
-				(Error::Unauthorized.retry(ms(5)).retry(ms(250)), 250),
+			for (err, interval, code) in [
+				(Error::Unroutable, 0, 0x10),
+				(Error::Unroutable.retry(ms(1500)), 1500, 0x10),
+				(Error::Unroutable.retry(std::time::Duration::from_micros(1)), 1, 0x10),
+				(Error::Unauthorized.retry(ms(5)).retry(ms(250)), 250, 0x1),
 			] {
@@
-				let code = request::to_code(&err, request::Kind::Subscribe, version);
 				claim.reject(err);

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Review comment at @rs/moq-net/src/ietf/publisher.rs around lines 15452 - 15455:
Update a_subscribe_refusal_carries_its_retry_interval so each refusal test case
includes an explicit expected response code, and assert against that value
rather than deriving it with request::to_code; keep the retry-interval checks
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Review comments at @rs/moq-net/src/error.rs:
- Around line 555-559: Update Error::Retry so its err field is exposed as an
error source, allowing error-chain formatters to traverse through the retry
wrapper to the underlying UTF-8 error. Preserve the existing display message and
retry behavior.
- Around line 570-572: Update the Error::retry interval-replacement logic to
unwrap every nested Error::Retry wrapper before applying the new interval, so
retry(Duration::ZERO) cannot retain an inner interval; preserve the underlying
non-retry error.
- Around line 556-561: Update Served::status to inspect the underlying error in
Error::Retry when selecting the PUBLISH_DONE status, so a wrapped
Error::Unauthorized retains the unauthorized status instead of mapping to
InternalError. Preserve the existing status mappings for other causes and the
retry delay behavior.
- Around line 556-561: Update both session and stream registry-identity
accessors to inspect the wrapped Error in the Retry variant, so adding a nonzero
retry interval preserves the underlying refusal classification. Add tests for
retry-wrapped registry errors and retain the existing behavior for other
variants.

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Review comments at @rs/moq-net/src/ietf/publisher.rs:
- Around line 15452-15455: Update a_subscribe_refusal_carries_its_retry_interval
so each refusal test case includes an explicit expected response code, and
assert against that value rather than deriving it with request::to_code; keep
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ℹ️ Three points, none large: one place the wrapper is not as transparent as the body claims, and two gaps filed as follow-ups that I think belong in this PR.

Reviewed changes

• New Error::Retry envelope — Error::retry(after) wraps a refusal with a retry hint, replacing an existing one, and returns the bare error for a zero duration.
• Wire encoding — buffer_error sends the hint as REQUEST_ERROR's Retry Interval in whole milliseconds, rounded up so a sub-millisecond hint never reads as "do not retry"; every app-facing refusal funnels through it.
• Classification sites read through cause() — the session and stream registries, token_expired, request::to_code, and the rendezvous timeout, which keeps the hint when it rewrites a refusal to Timeout.
• Tests — wrapper invariants, plus a per-draft wire test covering zero, sub-millisecond, and replaced hints.

ℹ️ The hint is send-only, so a moq-net relay hop resets it to 0

The body rules out decoding a received interval into Error::Retry because it changes the error existing consumers match on, which is fair, but that does not rule out surfacing the interval beside the error. Today ietf/subscriber/tracks.rs decodes a SUBSCRIBE's RequestError and keeps only error_code, so a moq-net relay that forwards an upstream publisher's transient refusal re-encodes it as 0 and the hint dies at the first hop: the multi-hop version of the motivating case. Refused::Until (ietf/publisher.rs:3936) already shows the non-breaking shape for namespaces.

Technical details

# Received retry intervals are dropped on SUBSCRIBE

## Affected sites
- `rs/moq-net/src/ietf/subscriber/tracks.rs:806-826` — `subscribe_response` decodes `RequestError` and passes on only `error_code`; `poll_read_answer` (`:785-800`) does the same for a resume.
- `rs/moq-net/src/ietf/publisher.rs:3936` — `Refused::Until` is the precedent: a received interval is honored without touching the error value.

## Required outcome
- A refusal received on the wire keeps its interval available to the consumer that decides whether to ask again, and a relay forwards it rather than re-encoding 0.

## Suggested approach (optional)
- Follow `Refused`: carry the pair through the refusal path (`{ error, retry: Option<Duration> }`) or expose an accessor, leaving the `Error` unchanged.

## Open questions for the human (optional)
- Is single-hop enough for the consumer this is for, i.e. is the relay's own router the only refusal source that will set it?

ℹ️ js/net's refusal writer still hard-codes 0

The body lists js/net as a follow-up, but AGENTS.md asks a Rust change with a JS counterpart to update both in the same PR, and the counterpart exists: every JS REQUEST_ERROR goes through writeRefusal from Refusal { condition, reasonPhrase }. The JS codec already parses retryInterval, so the missing piece is small.

Technical details

# js/net cannot express a retry hint

## Affected sites
- `js/net/src/ietf/request_stream.ts:36-40` — `writeRefusal` builds `new RequestError({ errorCode, reasonPhrase })`, so `retryInterval` defaults to 0 for every refusal.
- `js/net/src/ietf/request_stream.ts:24-30` — `Refusal` has no interval field, so an application has no way to ask for one.

## Required outcome
- A JS application can refuse a request with a retry interval, mirroring `Error::retry` on the Rust side.

## Suggested approach (optional)
- Add an optional `retry` (milliseconds) to `Refusal` and pass it to `new RequestError`; keep 0 as the default.

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Round 2 (ee4ee8e) reshapes the API: Error::Retry is gone and Error matches main. A new Refusal { error, retry_after } carries the hint beside the error, like Refused::Until; reject/abort take impl Into<Refusal>, so existing Error callers compile unchanged. Only the IETF request encoder reads the hint.

• review (OpenAI), P2 + direction: the model now stores and classifies the plain Error, so resume::retryable/unroutable cannot see a hint. a_retry_hint_keeps_a_going_away_copy_retryable checks that a carried copy aborted with GoingAway, hinted or bare, is asked for again from the same source. moq-lite ignores the hint.
• pullfrog: classification is fixed as above, and track.rs stores the error verbatim. js/net's Refusal/writeRefusal now carries retryAfter (default 0), with a test. Keeping a received interval across a relay hop (ietf/subscriber/tracks.rs) is listed as a follow-up.
• CodeRabbit: source(), session()/stream(), PUBLISH_DONE status and nested hints are moot without the wrapper. The wire tests assert explicit codes (0x10, 0x1, and 0x2 for a rendezvous timeout that keeps the hint) and cover a dynamic track's rejection too.

(Written by Claude Opus 5.5)

[kixelated]

Automated review by review (OpenAI)

Reviewed head: ee4ee8ea08b1f145d5e7696cd5a6d96b025e5f80, following review 5795478881.

Previous P2 addressed in source: Error::Retry is gone, classification receives the original Error, and a_retry_hint_keeps_a_going_away_copy_retryable covers the reported recovery case. The added explicit wire-code assertions and JS encoder coverage also improve the tests.

[P2] The IETF-only API/model constraint remains unresolved. Moving the hint to Refusal fixes error transparency, but still introduces public retry API, changes three model-facing signatures, and adds retry fields throughout model/origin.rs and model/track.rs. Only the IETF encoder uses these fields; moq-lite ignores them. This still conflicts with root AGENTS.md's prohibition on API exclusively for moq-transport and the crate's requirement to keep such features out of the model.

Direction: Keep the retry mechanism inside the IETF layer, or obtain an explicit maintainer decision changing that design constraint before merging. If the public API change is retained, include the required MIGRATE.md Unreleased notes.

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[pullfrog]

Important

The rewrite fixes the previous round's classification problem, but it also narrows where the hint reaches the wire: three app-refusal paths the first revision covered now encode 0. A migration note is also missing.

Reviewed changes

• Replaced Error::Retry with a public Refusal that carries the hint beside the unchanged error; origin::Request::reject, track::Request::reject, and track::Producer::abort now take impl Into<Refusal>.
• Threaded the hint through the model — the front, TrackIo, PendingBroadcast/PendingFront, and TrackState carry it so Error classification is untouched, with a regression test for a hinted GoingAway copy.
• Encoded it in buffer_refusal rounded up to whole milliseconds, and rewrote the wire tests to assert explicit codes and intervals for broadcast/track refusals and the rendezvous timeout.
• Added retryAfter to js/net's internal Refusal and its writer.
• Removed Error::retry/Error::cause and the session()/stream() special cases the old wrapper needed.

⚠️ The new public refusal API has no migration note

The PR adds moq_net::Refusal and changes three public signatures, but rs/moq-net/MIGRATE.md's ## Unreleased has no entry. Recent moq-net feature PRs (#7937, #7944) add one even when callers need no change, and this one is not fully source-compatible: request.reject(err.into()) no longer type-checks because both Refusal and auth::Refusal implement From<Error>.

Technical details

# The public refusal API ships without a migration note

## Affected sites
- `rs/moq-net/MIGRATE.md` — no `## Unreleased` entry for `Refusal` or the `impl Into<Refusal>` parameters.
- `rs/moq-net/src/error.rs:599-635` — the new public struct, `Refusal::retry`, and `From<Error>`.
- `rs/moq-net/src/model/origin.rs:6534`, `rs/moq-net/src/model/track.rs:3914`, `:9483` — the changed signatures.

## Required outcome
- `## Unreleased` documents that `reject`/`abort` accept a `Refusal`, how to build one with `Refusal::retry`, and that the generic parameter narrows source compatibility: a bare `Error` still compiles, but a `fn(Error)` value and an `err.into()` argument do not.

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[kixelated]

Design change: the retry hint now lives only in the IETF layer.

@ksletmoe-aws, I pushed a rework to your branch (3334629, merged with main, no rebase). The problem and motivation are yours and unchanged. What changed and why:

• The rules. Root AGENTS.md says to "never add API for functionality only they [moq-transport] have". rs/moq-net/AGENTS.md says a moq-transport feature with no moq-lite counterpart "gets the least code inside the IETF layer and nothing in the model". The public Refusal, the new reject / abort signatures and the retry_after fields in model/origin.rs and model/track.rs broke both, since moq-lite drops the hint.
• The maintainer's pick. Build the hint in the IETF layer only, by classifying errors as retryable, rather than make an exception to those rules or drop the PR.
• What it does now. The public API is back to main's. The resume path's unroutable / retryable helpers moved onto Error (unroutable(), transient(), retryable()), so recovery and the encoder share one classification. The new RequestError::refuse writes 1000 ms (moq-net's existing auth::RETRY_INITIAL backoff) for a retryable error whose code leaves the request open (INTERNAL_ERROR, DOES_NOT_EXIST, GOING_AWAY), and 0 otherwise. Your motivating case, a router answering Unroutable before the publisher comes up, now invites a retry. Every refusal path goes through the new constructor, so the resume, FETCH and TRACK_STATUS gaps pullfrog found are closed. @moq/net mirrors it through routeFailed.
• The cost. An application can no longer pick a per-request interval.

The PR body records the decision and the details.

(Written by Claude Opus 5.5)

[kixelated]

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Reviewed head: 3334629f96881da12be715e89c87021f195f31ca, following review 5795802436.

Previous findings addressed in source: The public Refusal, changed reject/abort signatures, and model retry fields are gone. The new Error helpers are crate-private and preserve the old recovery classifications; the original recovery regression and IETF-only public API/model-state blocker are resolved. The Rust resume, FETCH, and TRACK_STATUS refusal paths now reach RequestError::refuse through buffer_error.

[P2] Do not invite retries for JS session-level verdicts. Publisher.#failed now derives retryable directly from routeFailed(e), but that helper returns true for every SessionError. For example, reject the track in the new TRACK_STATUS test with new SessionError(SessionCode.Unauthorized): the error propagates unchanged to #failed, becomes condition "internal", and the writer sends INTERNAL_ERROR with a 1000 ms retry interval. Before this change that interval was 0; now the peer is invited to repeat a request whose authorization verdict has not changed. Session Expired, Timeout, Version, and Unsupported have the same problem.

The Rust side already handles this distinction in to_code and retry_interval, producing the appropriate verdict code and interval 0. Mirror that distinction at the JS IETF refusal boundary without narrowing routeFailed's recovery semantics. Add JS wire cases asserting both the code and interval for these session verdicts and a genuinely transient failure; the current new test checks only GoingAway/NotFound intervals.

Direction: Keep the redesign, but fix this JS/Rust refusal mismatch before merging. The documented loss of received retry intervals across relay hops remains a follow-up, not something this revision fixes.

Verification limits: GitHub-only static review of all 16 changed-file diffs and related refusal/recovery paths. No builds or tests executed, and Check is still in progress. Rechecked that the PR is open, non-draft, and still at the SHA above, with no equivalent review, immediately before submitting. This is a COMMENT, not merge approval.

[pullfrog]

Important

The Rust encoder now withholds the retry hint for a session verdict, but the new JS mirror still invites a retry for one, so the two implementations disagree on the wire for the same failure.

Reviewed changes

• Replaced the public Refusal with crate-private classification on Error (retryable, unroutable, transient) and deleted model/resume.rs's copies, so the front's copy check reads transient and every former route_failed site reads retryable.
• Added RequestError::refuse, which derives the code and the Retry Interval together, and routed buffer_error through it so resume_failed, the track-refused FETCH and TRACK_STATUS, the GOAWAY cutoff, the reserved namespace and refused namespace updates all carry the derived hint.
• Invited a 1 s retry only when the error is retryable and the wire code is INTERNAL_ERROR, DOES_NOT_EXIST or GOING_AWAY, leaving rendezvous_error's TIMEOUT and every verdict at 0.
• Added a per-error/per-kind/per-draft table test and a wire test over SUBSCRIBE, FETCH and TRACK_STATUS, moved the missing-broadcast and GOAWAY-cutoff expectations to 1000, and mirrored the rule in js/net through Refusal.retryable and routeFailed.

ℹ️ The overload refusal still says "do not retry"

Draft-18 §10.6.2 gives EXCESSIVE_LOAD the only capital-SHOULD about this field — "The sender SHOULD use the Retry Interval to indicate when the request can be retried" — yet the over-limit PUBLISH refusal at rs/moq-net/src/ietf/subscriber/tracks.rs:491 is encoded at :524-528 with retry_interval: 0. That is pre-existing rather than introduced here, but it is the same class of transient refusal this PR exists to make retryable, and RequestError::refuse is now the one place the policy lives.

Technical details

# The overload refusal is the one draft-mandated retry hint that is still 0

## Affected sites
- `rs/moq-net/src/ietf/subscriber/tracks.rs:491` — `Offer::Refuse(request::EXCESSIVE_LOAD, "too many listed tracks")`.
- `rs/moq-net/src/ietf/subscriber/tracks.rs:524-528` — the `Offer::Refuse` arm builds `ietf::RequestError { retry_interval: 0 }` directly, bypassing `RequestError::refuse`.

## Required outcome
- An EXCESSIVE_LOAD refusal points the peer at a later retry instead of telling it never to come back.

## Suggested approach (optional)
- Carry a retry interval beside the code in `Offer::Refuse`, or encode the EXCESSIVE_LOAD arm through `RequestError::refuse` with an error that maps to 0x9, and keep every other `Offer::Refuse` code at 0.

## Open questions for the human (optional)
- Is this deliberately left for a follow-up because it needs `Offer` plumbing, or should the policy cover it now?

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[kixelated]

On the Pullfrog note about the over-limit PUBLISH refusal (EXCESSIVE_LOAD, rs/moq-net/src/ietf/subscriber/tracks.rs:491) still sending a Retry Interval of 0: not changed here. It predates this PR, it is not a refusal built from an error, so RequestError::refuse cannot classify it, and whether a full listing slot table may clear within any given interval is its own policy call. I have left it to the maintainer as a possible follow-up.

(Written by Claude Opus 5.5)

[pullfrog]

ℹ️ No critical issues — one minor parity note inline.

Reviewed changes

• Mapped a JS session verdict's code to its RequestCondition in Publisher.#failed, so Unauthorized, Expired, Timeout, Version and Unsupported refuse with the same code and a 0 interval as Rust's to_code.
• Gated writeRefusal's Retry Interval on the emitted code being INTERNAL_ERROR, GOING_AWAY or DOES_NOT_EXIST, mirroring Rust's retry_interval.
• Extended the TRACK_STATUS wire test to assert both the code and the interval for every session verdict and a transient session failure.

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[pullfrog]

Attaching the parity note from the review above here, since it could not be anchored inline.

js/net/src/ietf/publisher.ts:2576 — a stream-level refusal still writes INTERNAL_ERROR where Rust writes its own code

sessionVerdict covers a session verdict, but a stream-level one still falls to internal here. A track request rejected with StreamError(StreamCode.GoingAway) writes INTERNAL_ERROR/1000, while Rust's to_code maps Error::Stream(StreamError::GoingAway) to GOING_AWAY/1000; Rust's a_track_refusal_that_may_pass_invites_a_retry asserts 0x6 for its going-away case, and the row added here at js/net/src/ietf/publisher.test.ts:426 asserts 0x0. StreamError(Unauthorized), DeliveryTimeout and MalformedTrack have the same code-only gap, since no branch maps them.

Technical details

# A stream-level refusal still writes INTERNAL_ERROR where Rust writes its own code

## Affected sites
- `js/net/src/ietf/publisher.ts:2576` — `#failed` maps only `SessionError` codes; any other non-`missing` error becomes condition `internal`.
- `js/net/src/ietf/publisher.test.ts:426` — the new row asserts `StreamError(StreamCode.GoingAway)` -> code 0x0 / interval 1000.
- `rs/moq-net/src/ietf/error.rs:207-249` — `to_code` maps `Error::Stream(StreamError::GoingAway)` -> 0x6, `Unauthorized` -> 0x1, `DeliveryTimeout` -> 0x2, `MalformedTrack` -> 0x12.

## Required outcome
- For the same failure, `js/net` writes the same code and interval as `rs/moq-net`. GoingAway is the one with peer-visible consequences: 0x6 says the session is draining, 0x0 does not.
- Either add a stream-code counterpart to `sessionVerdict`, or record the divergence as a follow-up so the new test row does not read as intended parity.

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[kixelated]

Automated review by review (OpenAI)

Reviewed head: 39e9a3e83ebf02800dcfe77876944793dd7c5257, following review 5798686513.

Previous P2 addressed in source: sessionVerdict maps Unauthorized, Expired, Timeout, Version, and Unsupported to their request conditions, and writeRefusal now requires both a retryable error and an open-ended wire code before writing 1000 ms. Those session verdicts therefore encode their respective codes with interval 0, while Session Internal remains retryable. routeFailed keeps its recovery semantics. I found no new actionable runtime regression in the three-file increment.

Coverage follow-up: The updated TRACK_STATUS table asserts code and interval for Unauthorized, Expired, Version, and transient Session Internal. It does not yet contain Session Timeout or Unsupported, despite the PR description saying every session verdict is tested. Add those rows with [0x2, 0n] and [0x3, 0n] respectively. This is regression-coverage hardening, not a demonstrated failure of the new mapping.

Direction: Keep the session-verdict fix. Pullfrog's stream-code parity note concerns a separate, pre-existing gap: for example JS GoingAway still writes INTERNAL_ERROR where Rust writes GOING_AWAY. I am not duplicating that finding. The documented overload and multi-hop interval limitations also remain follow-ups.

Verification limits: GitHub-only static follow-up covering the complete incremental diff, affected call sites, JS code registry/recovery classification, and Rust refusal mapping. No builds, tests, or interop checks executed. Check was still in progress when inspected. Rechecked open/non-draft state, full head SHA, and current reviews immediately before submitting. This COMMENT is not approval or a merge-readiness claim.

[kixelated]

Fixed in 360b092. #failed now maps a stream verdict through refusedAs as Rust's to_code does: GoingAway refuses GOING_AWAY (1000 ms), Unauthorized, DeliveryTimeout and MalformedTrack their own codes with 0. The TRACK_STATUS table asserts 0x6 for GoingAway and covers those stream codes plus Session Timeout and Unsupported, as the automated review asked.

(Written by Claude Opus 5.5)

[kixelated]

Automated review by review (OpenAI)

Reviewed head: 360b092342f0c50834ea57491a0f751a453e2097, following review 5803060737.

Previous follow-ups addressed in source:

• The TRACK_STATUS wire table now includes Session Timeout → [0x2, 0] and Unsupported → [0x3, 0], closing the coverage gap from my last review.
• refusedAs maps stream Unauthorized, DeliveryTimeout, MalformedTrack, and GoingAway to the matching Rust request codes. The new test rows assert the verdicts with interval 0 and GoingAway with code 0x6/1000 ms, addressing the separate parity note.

No new actionable findings in this increment. I compared the PR patches before and after the main merge: the changed PR-specific additions/removals are confined to the JS publisher and its test. The merged resolved distinction is preserved: a missing track after the broadcast resolved remains DOES_NOT_EXIST, while a missing publisher or vanished route in a rendezvous remains TIMEOUT with no retry hint. The existing session-verdict mappings and retry-code filter remain intact.

Direction and limits: Keep these fixes and complete exact-head validation. Overload and multi-hop interval handling remain the documented follow-ups. This was a GitHub-only static review of the fix and merge integration, including affected refusal call sites and the Rust mapping; I did not execute tests, builds, or interop checks, or audit unrelated changes imported from main. Check was still in progress when inspected. Open/non-draft state, the full head SHA, and reviews were rechecked immediately before submission. This COMMENT is not approval or a merge-readiness claim.

[pullfrog]

✅ No new issues found.

Reviewed changes

• Stream verdicts now mirror Rust in js/net — the module-level refusedAs replaces sessionVerdict, mapping both SessionError and StreamError codes to their request conditions as to_code does, so a StreamError(GoingAway) refuses GOING_AWAY (0x6) instead of INTERNAL_ERROR, and Unauthorized, DeliveryTimeout and MalformedTrack get their own codes.
• The merge preserves main's rendezvous rule — #failed keeps the resolved parameter so only an unresolved NotFound becomes a timeout, then delegates every other failure to refusedAs with retryable from routeFailed.
• The TRACK_STATUS wire test now pins the mapping — one row each for stream GoingAway/NotFound/Unauthorized/DeliveryTimeout/MalformedTrack and session Internal/Unauthorized/Expired/Timeout/Version/Unsupported, asserting both code and interval.

I audited each JS SessionCode/StreamCode against Rust's to_code, retry_interval and retryable, and every representable code now writes the same code and interval as the Rust side. Ran bun test src/ietf/publisher.test.ts (125 pass, 2 skip), biome check and tsc --noEmit -p js/net against this head; all clean.

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