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Finishes the transport half of the reliable-reset quest. That quest is deleted here; its MoQ half moves to quest/m1/quic/group-reset.md.

Implements draft-ietf-quic-reliable-stream-reset-11 in moq-quic, then uses it in both WebTransport adapters so a reset stream keeps its header.

moq-quic

• Transport parameter reset_stream_at (0x1d) is always advertised. A non-empty value or a duplicate is TRANSPORT_PARAMETER_ERROR. A server that accepts 0-RTT but drops the parameter it had advertised is a protocol violation.
• RESET_STREAM_AT (0x24) is encoded, decoded, acked, lost, and retransmitted on the existing RESET_STREAM path. A reliable size of 0 goes out as a plain RESET_STREAM. A reliable size above the final size is FRAME_ENCODING_ERROR, and so is receiving the frame without having advertised it.
• Send side: SendStream::checkpoint() marks the data written so far, and Checkpoint::reset(conn, code) resets the stream while still delivering that data. Nothing past the checkpoint is sent or retransmitted from then on, and the prefix is retransmitted until acked.
  • A peer that advertised the extension gets RESET_STREAM_AT at once, with the checkpoint as the Reliable Size.
  • Otherwise the sender holds a plain RESET_STREAM until the prefix is fully acked, one extra round trip, or sends it at once if the prefix already is. Its final size still covers the abandoned bytes, so connection flow control is returned the usual way.
  • The first reset fixes the Reliable Size: a second reset, held or not, is ClosedStream. STOP_SENDING forces it to 0, as the draft recommends: a held reset goes out at once, and a RESET_STREAM_AT whose data is still unacked is replaced by a zero-sized reset, so the prefix stops being retransmitted. A connection close drops a held reset with the stream.
  • The stream is freed only once both the reset and the prefix are acked. The send state keeps the smallest Reliable Size an acknowledged reset carried, and a reset counts as acked only while that equals the current size, so after STOP_SENDING shrinks a reset, neither a late ACK of the old frame nor an earlier one keeps its zero-sized replacement from being retransmitted until that one is acked.
• Receive side: data past the Reliable Size is discarded. The reset error surfaces only once the reliable prefix has been read, so read returns the prefix first, then Reset. A later, smaller Reliable Size shrinks the prefix and a larger one is ignored. A changed error code is STREAM_STATE_ERROR and a changed final size is FINAL_SIZE_ERROR. Connection credit for abandoned bytes is returned exactly once, for ordered and unordered reads.
• Fixes a latent quinn bug: stop after reset credited the unread data twice.

Caveat for peers without the extension

An ACK only means the peer's QUIC stack holds the bytes, not that its application read them, and RFC 9000 lets a receiver discard unread data on RESET_STREAM. So the fallback is reliable only for data the receiving stack parses on arrival, like the WebTransport stream header. Checkpoint::reset documents this, and the group-reset quest must check Chrome's behavior before relying on it for MoQ group headers.

WebTransport adapters

Both adapters write the WebTransport header of a stream they open, and checkpoint it, before handing the stream out, so no stream exists with a partial header, even near a flow-control boundary. moq_tokio::quic::web already did this. moq-uring's adapter used to write the header lazily ahead of the first payload byte, so a reset could follow a partial header write; its poll_open_* now waits for the header's credit instead, which also removes the owed-header state from finish, poll_closed and Drop. A reset from that checkpoint delivers the header, with or without the extension, so the peer can tell which session the reset belongs to. Only a stream the peer opened, which has no header of ours, gets a plain RESET_STREAM.

Decisions

Settled by the maintainer (2026-10-16):

1. Send-side API
   • reset_at(code, reliable_size)
   • ✅ SendStream::checkpoint() -> Checkpoint and Checkpoint::reset(code). A checkpoint carries its stream and offset, so a Reliable Size past the written data cannot be asked for, and Unwritten is gone. The m2 ACK-progress quest adds Checkpoint::acked() to the same handle.
   • Breaking change to reset(code, size)
2. Reliable Size after the first reset
   • ✅ Fixed by the first reset; the send side never shrinks it
   • Allow later resets to shrink it
3. When a received reset surfaces
   • ✅ Once the reliable prefix has been read
   • Once it has been received
4. Configuration
   • ✅ Always advertised, with only a test-only knob
   • A public switch
5. Quest scope
   • ✅ Delete the reliable-reset quest now that its transport scope is done, and split the MoQ half into quest/m1/quic/group-reset.md, which uses Checkpoint
   • Keep it open in this PR
6. A peer without the extension
   • Fail with Unsupported so the caller falls back to a plain reset
   • ✅ Hold a plain RESET_STREAM until the prefix is acked. Checkpoint::reset fails only with ClosedStream, so the dedicated error type is gone.

Picked here, open to review:

• Checkpoint::reset reuses ClosedStream instead of a one-variant error type.
• moq-quic is sans-IO, so its Checkpoint::reset takes the &mut Connection. It carries the stream id, so it cannot hit another stream. It also carries the connection tag feat(quic): hold connection credit until the receiver releases it #5675 added for Credit, and using it on a different connection panics the same way, a caller bug. It also carries the streams' generation, which rejected 0-RTT bumps when it discards the client's streams and reopens their ids, so a checkpoint from before fails with ClosedStream rather than resetting the new stream. The tokio driver's Checkpoint holds its ConnectionRef, so that mistake cannot happen there.
• moq-uring's driver keeps checkpoint() crate-private, since only its adapter needs it.

Public API

• moq_quic::SendStream::checkpoint(&self) -> Checkpoint
• moq_quic::Checkpoint, with reset(self, conn: &mut Connection, error_code: VarInt) -> Result<(), ClosedStream>
• moq_tokio::quic::driver::SendStream::checkpoint(&self) -> Checkpoint
• moq_tokio::quic::driver::Checkpoint, with reset(self, error_code: VarInt) -> Result<(), ClosedStream>. It holds a ConnectionRef, so it keeps the connection open like a stream does.
• Behavior changes: a received reset now waits until the reliable prefix is read, a WebTransport reset of a stream it opened now delivers the stream header, holding the reset a round trip when the peer lacks the extension, and moq-uring's poll_open_uni/poll_open_bi now wait until the header has flow-control credit.

Wire

• QUIC: advertises transport parameter 0x1d and sends and accepts frame 0x24. Peers that don't know the parameter ignore it, and the frame only goes to peers that advertised it. Those peers get a plain RESET_STREAM, possibly a round trip later than before.
• No MoQ wire change, so no draft update.

Tests

• moq-quic: frame and transport-parameter coding, send buffer and assembler truncation, stream-state unit tests (including held_reset_waits_for_prefix_ack and stop_sending_releases_held_reset), and Pair tests in tests/reset_stream_at.rs: loss, retransmission, flow control, 0-RTT, repeated reset, and for a peer without the extension:
  • unsupported_holds_reset_until_acked: the receiver reads every byte before the checkpoint, then the reset code, and no RESET_STREAM leaves before the prefix is acked. Removing the gate fails it, along with three of the tests below.
  • unsupported_retransmits_lost_prefix, unsupported_resets_at_once_when_acked, unsupported_after_finish, unsupported_repeated_reset_is_closed, unsupported_close_while_held, unsupported_returns_flow_control
• moq-tokio: reset_delivers_header, which times out without the fix.
• moq-quic: stop_sending_abandons_prefix_supported/_unsupported and the stop_sending_abandons_reliable_prefix unit test: no prefix is retransmitted after STOP_SENDING. The supported case fails if STOP_SENDING only releases held resets. stale_reset_ack_keeps_shrunk_reset and acked_reset_shrunk_waits_for_replacement cover both orders of a reset ACK around a STOP_SENDING shrink, and fail if any reset ACK counts, checkpoint_from_another_connection fails without the tag check, zero_rtt_rejected_checkpoint_is_closed fails if a checkpoint from rejected 0-RTT can reset the reopened stream, and reset_at_beyond_final_size covers the bound check, now in received_reset rather than the frame decoder.
• moq-uring: a_reset_stream_keeps_its_header, a uring server against a tokio client in both directions, and a_reset_stream_keeps_its_header_without_credit, which exhausts a tokio client's connection credit before opening and resetting a stream. Both fail without the fix.

CI

"TS validation" (just test ts --full) fails intermittently with "the source's clock runs ... ppm off ours". That is the known start-up drift flake tracked by quest/m1/ts-drift-startup.md (#5564), and #5664's branch and main failed it the same way; details in the comments. #5714, now merged in, fixes it.

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Merged the moved base (21cac2b27) in a9d2ed49a. just check and just test interop --all pass locally ("interop: all checks passed"), and the 90 moq-uring tests pass, a_reset_stream_keeps_its_header among them.

TS validation failure. It is the known start-up drift flake that quest/m1/ts-drift-startup.md tracks (#5564), not this PR:

• The base failed the same step, "TS full multiplex at its own rate", with "+13477.2 ppm" (run 38855030659, e111abf07).
• quest/m2/teleop/docs failed it with "+33280.3 ppm" (run 38854688326). That branch is main plus docs and moq-json changes, so it still runs on noq rather than moq-quic.
• Locally, this branch failed 1 of 3 runs ("+18525.3 ppm") and the base passed 2 of 2. Every failure has the same shape: a large negative reading at start-up, then a plateau between +1% and +3%.

Leaving the PR as a draft.

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TS validation on 45cf6eb fails only video-content ("decoded pictures are not an intact suffix of the source"), on both attempts of 38960214659. Every other check passes.

This is the flake tracked in quest/m1/test-flakes-2/ts-video-content.md (#5565), not this PR:

• Today the same check failed with the same 25156468-byte capture on unrelated branches: 38955520097 (quest/m1/session-outcomes), 38954510514 (quest/m2/ts-eac3) and 38952576001 (codex/quest-release-audit, docs only).
• 8 of the last 80 ts.yml runs failed, across 7 branches. The quest also records feat(cli): select Wayland windows through the system portal #5566 failing it on both attempts.
• just test ts passes locally on this head.

This PR only changes reset behavior when a caller passes a Reliable Size. A plain group reset still sends RESET_STREAM.

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