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Problem

A live PUBLISH_NAMESPACE cannot switch to a replacement in-band credential, so it cannot renew an expiring request token without reopening the request.

Change

• moq-net: auth::Handle::add() now returns auth::Auth, a cloneable reference to one presented credential. It stays presented until its last clone drops. origin::Route gains auth: Option<Auth> and with_auth().
  • The moq-transport publisher sends a route's auth as the PUBLISH_NAMESPACE AUTHORIZATION TOKEN (USE_VALUE, out of band), but only on the session whose handle issued it.
  • Swapping the auth sends one REQUEST_UPDATE carrying just the new token, from draft 17 on. Drafts 14-16, and naming or dropping a token, end the request and make it again.
• Concurrent renewals: at most one update is in flight per request, queued for request IDs in order. Each answer is polled only when its stream wakes, and deadlines sit in send order, so new announcements never wait behind a renewal.
• moq-transport without MoQ Auth: add() succeeds with no grant and keeps the token for requests. With MoQ Auth the token is also presented on the AUTH stream. Only a peer whose SETUP omits the extension leaves tokens to requests; with it negotiated, a reset AUTH stream fails the token.
• Bugs fixed along the way, each with a regression test that fails without the fix:
  • A FIN on an update in flight (a draft-17+ cancel) closed the session. Now it withdraws only that request and offers it again.
  • Writing an update to a request the peer already ended closed the session. Same fix.
  • A reset on an update in flight ended the whole announce loop. Now it ends only that request, like a FIN.
  • A route auth the peer revoked kept riding its request while another token left the session's grant unchanged, because nothing woke the announce loop. A token ending now wakes it, in Rust and JS, and the request is made again without it.
  • Receiver race (from feat(auth): a request token is one more auth on requests() #5148): an acceptor that accepted a renewal and dropped the grant it replaces in one step ended the request, because the guard saw the drop before the serve loop applied the renewal. The request grant now tracks the renewal being verified, and an old grant that drops or reaches its deadline after its renewal was granted hands over to it. The bench's two-round hold that worked around it is gone.
• moq-tokio: renamed connection::Auth to connection::auth::Handle and connection::Token to connection::auth::Auth, and dropped the crate-root moq_tokio::Auth re-export.
• js/net mirror, with Rust's names: JS Auth (a session's tokens and grants) is now Handle, and Token (one presented token) is now Auth. Route.auth?: Auth follows the same rules, and auth.add() on moq-transport keeps the token without AUTH. Closing a token a route names makes its request again without it, a request-only token ends with its session, and add() copies a caller's buffer. moq-lite advertises the route unnamed, and a swap sends nothing there.
• Reconnects: an Auth belongs to the session that added it, so after a reconnect the application adds the token again and re-announces. The docs and Route::auth say so, and Auth outlives its session carries the connection-level handle.
• Bench and docs: new auth/renewal bench in rs/moq-net/benches/auth.rs. doc/concept/standard.md, doc/concept/moq-lite.md and doc/lib/js/net.md now describe route tokens.

Decisions

• ✅ auth::Auth, a cloneable reference to one presented credential returned by add() (maintainer, 2026-10-16).
• ✅ An Auth is bound to the handle that issued it. Any other session sends the request with no token, and moq-tokio's types are renamed to match (maintainer, 2026-10-16).
• ✅ Connection-level Auth goes to the follow-up quest Auth outlives its session, added in this PR (a session-independent issuer in moq-net, passed via Client::with_auth(handle), with moq-tokio's replay loop moving into moq-net). Until it lands, connection-level routes keep the interim behavior and re-announce after a reconnect (maintainer, 2026-10-16).
• ✅ Route::auth only. Subscription::auth and its aggregation rule are a follow-up (maintainer, 2026-10-16).
• ✅ The JS rename lands here: Auth becomes Handle, Token becomes Auth (maintainer, 2026-10-16).
• ✅ The receiver race is fixed at the source in this PR, for both the old grant's drop and its deadline (maintainer, 2026-10-16).

Findings and follow-ups

• JS renewals are sent one at a time. The JS announce loop already advertised and repriced serially; renewals inherit that, so N routes renewing together take N round trips. Rust sends them concurrently. Worth a follow-up if a JS publisher ever carries many routes.
• Idle cancels go unnoticed. Nothing reads an idle PUBLISH_NAMESPACE stream, so a draft-17+ receiver cancel is only noticed at the next update.
• A slope remains at 512 routes. On one session the time per route is flat from 16 to 128 routes and rises at 512. A likely cause is the loop's existing per-turn scan of every watched route for deferred retries.
• Inline advertisements carry no token. From draft 16, answers to a solicited SUBSCRIBE_NAMESPACE (the default when the peer declares MoQ Solicit) are inline NAMESPACE entries, which have nowhere to put one. Drafts 14 and 15 answer with a PUBLISH_NAMESPACE, which carries it.
• Planned follow-ups: Subscription::auth, Auth outlives its session, lite renewal via Requests name their auth, bindings via Bindings.

Impact

Public API (breaking):

• moq-net: auth::Token becomes auth::Auth (Clone, Eq by identity, grant(), closed()). Handle::add() returns Result<Auth> and succeeds on moq-transport without MoQ Auth. New origin::Route::auth and Route::with_auth().
• moq-tokio: connection::auth::{Handle, Auth}, and the root Auth re-export is gone.
• js/net: Auth.Auth becomes Auth.Handle and Auth.Token becomes Auth.Auth. New Route.auth, which routesEqual compares. auth.add() resolves on moq-transport without AUTH.

Wire: no new messages, fields or codes. The sender now emits AUTHORIZATION TOKEN (0x03, USE_VALUE, type 0) on PUBLISH_NAMESPACE and its REQUEST_UPDATE when a route names a token its session issued. The receiver now keeps a request whose old grant drops or expires after its renewal was accepted. A sender whose route auth ends ends that request and makes it again without the token.

Bench

auth/renewal: swap the token on every route of one origin, until the issuing session's peer has accepted each renewal, dropping the previous round's grants. One machine, under shared load:

sessions \ routes	1	16	128
1	9 µs	79 µs	0.70 ms
16	53 µs	0.62 ms	8.5 ms
64	0.25 ms	3.6 ms	46 ms

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Open API decision before implementation:

1. auth::Auth (recommended): a cloneable reference to one presented credential, returned by auth::Handle::add(). The credential remains presented until the last reference drops. Route::auth and Subscription::auth hold Option<Auth>.
2. Make auth::Token cloneable and use Option<auth::Token> directly. This is smaller, but “token” keeps conflating credential bytes with the auth identity/grant named by a request.
3. Put credential bytes on routes/subscriptions. I do not recommend this because it bypasses add() and duplicates ownership.

The IETF receive path and renewal refusal semantics already exist. After this decision, the first implementation slice should be outgoing PUBLISH_NAMESPACE REQUEST_UPDATE, with lite deferred behind request-auth-id as the quest permits.

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Walkthrough

The change adds session-issued authorization credentials to routes in JavaScript and Rust. MoQ Transport publishers can include eligible credentials in namespace announcements and renew requests when route auth changes. The implementation handles protocol versions that support request updates and versions that require a fresh announcement. Auth APIs distinguish session handles from individual credentials, and tests cover token ownership, closure, and renewal behavior.

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A peer resetting a single announcement renewal can stop all later announcements on that session. Fix this before merging. The docs also misstate when route tokens are sent on older drafts.

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Merging at 802124f, after merging main and settling every open review finding.

Changes since the last round

• Rust: a granted renewal now also outlives the old grant's deadline, not only its drop (a_granted_renewal_outlives_the_old_deadline).
• Rust and JS: a route token that ends wakes the announce loop, so its request is made again without it, on the unsolicited loop and the solicited legacy loop (moqt_22_a_revoked_route_auth_remakes_its_announce, plus two JS tests).
• JS: a request-only token ends with its session, add() copies the caller's buffer, and a reset AUTH stream with MoQ Auth negotiated fails the token instead of keeping it for requests, matching Rust.
• Every fix landed with a regression test that fails without it.

Decisions (all settled by the maintainer, recorded in the body)

• Connection-level Auth is the Auth outlives its session follow-up; routes re-announce after a reconnect until then.
• The JS rename lands here.
• The receiver race is fixed at the source.

Deferred: JS renewals stay serial, like the JS loop's advertisements and reprices before this PR; noted as a follow-up.

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Remove the duplicated comment line.

Line 1269 and Line 1270 contain the same comment. Delete one of them.

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 					// A token that ended leaves the request carrying it to be made again without.
-					// A token that ended leaves the request carrying it to be made again without.
 					const ended = this.#auth?.ended.changed(() => resolve("changed"));

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Review comment at @js/net/src/ietf/publisher.ts around lines 1269 - 1271:
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Review comments at @js/net/src/hop.ts:
- Around line 102-105: Update the comment around the route-token behavior to
document that a solicited SUBSCRIBE_NAMESPACE answer on drafts 14–15 can carry
the token in its PUBLISH_NAMESPACE request; retain the unnamed-route behavior
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Review comments at @quest/m1/auth/issuer.md:
- Around line 5-10: Update the Goal section to state that a route can retain and
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session-bound behavior and need to re-add the token to the Plan section,
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Review comments at @rs/moq-net/src/ietf/publisher.rs:
- Around line 3070-3078: Update the `Publisher::offer` authorization match in
`publisher.rs` to attach `Route::auth` only for `Target::Requests(None)`,
leaving solicited requests with a stream token-free. At `standard.md` line 32,
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- Line 3243: Update `answered` to handle errors from the update stream locally:
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stop `run_namespaces`. Add a regression test confirming a reset request does not
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- Around line 1269-1271: Remove the duplicate comment above the `ended`
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Re-merging at 8982b91 after the queue dropped it twice for conflicts with main.

• Merged main twice; the conflicts were in doc/concept/standard.md and the old serial update path in rs/moq-net/src/ietf/publisher.rs, whose body.message() decoding is ported to the concurrent answer handler.
• New fix from review: a reset on an update in flight ends only that request instead of the whole announce loop (a_reset_renewal_ends_only_its_request).
• Docs now say drafts 14 and 15 carry a route's token on their PUBLISH_NAMESPACE answer to a solicited SUBSCRIBE_NAMESPACE.
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