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On moq-transport drafts 14 through 19, tail js-native -> rust fails: the Rust subscriber reads remote error: code=0. The browser JS publisher's IETF media cell (js -> rust) fails on drafts 14, 16 and 18 for the same reason.

The relay subscribes upstream to the JS publisher with Largest Object plus a joining FETCH for the head of the Largest group. The JS publisher serves no FETCH, so it refuses. Since moq-dev/moq#6348, that refusal aborts the whole track and cancels it upstream, so every relay subscription to a JS publisher with content dies before draft 20. The relay passes the abort on as INTERNAL_ERROR.

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A refused or failed joining FETCH now costs only the Largest group's head, the same as a failed draft-20 FILL. The fill settles as Fill::Done, so a stream that starts mid-group no longer waits on it, a whole group still stands alone, and the subscription keeps delivering. This drops the End::Unjoined arm and the settle-time abort that #6348 added. A malformed answer (a decode failure or an unexpected message) is still the peer breaking the protocol, so it closes the session, as any other request's does. A request that fails after FETCH_OK while the head is still being written settles the fill too, so a parked mid-group tail is released.

What happens to the Largest group's tail after a failed head (kept as a partial group or dropped, depending on which stream lands first) is unchanged. quest/m2/ietf-headless-group.md owns that race and has decided to keep the tail.

#6348's hang came from a multi-group AbsoluteJoining FETCH whose refusal lost every group up to the live one. Joins now only fetch the Largest group's head (RelativeJoining{0}), so the worst case of a refusal is that one group.

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  • a_refused_fetch_joins_at_the_next_whole_group replaces a_refused_fetch_fails_the_subscription: after a refused joining FETCH, the track is still live and no head is outstanding. It fails on main.
  • a_malformed_fetch_answer_closes_the_session: a SUBSCRIBE_OK where FETCH_OK belongs closes the session. It fails without the close.
  • a_request_failing_mid_head_settles_the_fill: on drafts 18 and 19, a reset after FETCH_OK settles a fill whose head is still being written. It fails without the change.
  • The existing stitch_tests cover a whole group standing alone after Fill::Done.
  • just test interop --tail --publishers js-native-node,js-native-bun --subscribers rust --versions ietf: every js-native -> rust cell passes on every draft (on main it fails on 14, 16 and 18 in my run). Across five runs, the rust -> js-native-* cells failed three times with the pre-existing RESET_STREAM: 1 flake noted below.
  • just test interop --publishers js --subscribers rust,js-native-node --versions moq-transport-14,moq-transport-16,moq-transport-18 passes; on main, js -> rust fails on draft 14.
  • just test interop --all: all checks pass.
  • just check: lint and 8988 Rust tests pass. check flake can't run in my sandbox (unshare: write failed /proc/self/uid_map), which CI covers.

API and wire impact

  • No public API or wire change.
  • Behavior: before draft 20, a publisher that refuses the joining FETCH now costs the subscriber that group's head, not the whole subscription.

Quests

  • quest/m2/ietf-join-after-finish.md assumed a refusal fails the subscription; it now says the late FETCH loses the group.
  • New quest/m2/ietf-js-joining-fetch.md: the JS publisher serving the joining FETCH itself. It needs Largest Object honored before draft 20 and the post-finish bound from ietf-join-after-finish.md, so it waits on that quest.
  • quest/m2/ietf-join-after-finish.md also records the flake it causes in pinned-pass tail cells with a Rust publisher (an empty group 3, about one run in six on draft 14). That flake predates this PR: it shows up as rust -> rust and rust -> js-native-node failures in the nightly before moq-dev/moq#6348. The tail run's occasional rust -> js-native-* RESET_STREAM: 1 failure also predates it (twice in the same nightly), and quest/m2/audit-ci.md already assigns it to join-after-finish.

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A failed pre-draft-20 joining FETCH no longer fails the subscriber’s track or subscription. The fill settles as done, so a stream that starts mid-group is dropped and the subscription can continue at the next whole-group boundary. A clean PUBLISH_DONE finishes the track. The quest documents describe related publisher behavior and a suspected empty-tail race; these are plans, not implemented changes.

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A failed join can leave a subscription waiting instead of progressing to the next group. Fix the active-fill cleanup and malformed-response handling before merging, and test delivery after refusal.

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Add a whole-group delivery check to the refused joining FETCH test.

a_refused_fetch_joins_at_the_next_whole_group checks only that the track is not finished and that no head is outstanding. Its session script contains only the SUBSCRIBE_OK and refused FETCH responses, so no group is sent after the refusal. A regression that drops or blocks later whole groups would leave both assertions true and still pass. Script a whole-group stream after the refusal, then assert that its frames reach the consumer. The stitch tests already use this pattern for whole groups on a settled fill, but none of them drive the joining refusal path.

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Review comment at @rs/moq-net/src/ietf/subscriber.rs around lines 15845 - 15854:
Update a_refused_fetch_joins_at_the_next_whole_group to script delivery of a
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Review comments at @rs/moq-net/src/ietf/subscriber.rs:
- Line 3400: Update both FETCH response handling branches around
read_fetch_response to distinguish Error::Decode and Error::UnexpectedMessage
from refused or failed joins: terminate the affected track or session on
protocol errors, while preserving the existing fallback behavior for refusals
and other join failures.
- Line 3400: Update the FETCH failure cleanup to include Fill::Active in the
terminal states it settles, alongside Fill::Requested and Fill::Serving(_).
Locate the cleanup near the joining FETCH failure log; preserve the existing
Fill::Done handling in Fill::install.

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Comment thread rs/moq-net/src/ietf/subscriber.rs
Fill::Done meant both "no join was asked for" and "the join settled without
a head", and open_group treated it as the former: a mid-group tail that
arrived after the head failed passed through as a partial group, while one
that arrived first was dropped. Fill::Unrequested now marks a subscription
with no join, so a settled join always drops a tail it cannot stitch.

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Comment thread rs/moq-net/src/ietf/subscriber.rs Outdated
Reverts 972886f. Dropping a mid-group or empty tail after a failed fill
reverses the decision recorded in quest/m2/ietf-headless-group.md: keep the
tail as a headless group, since a relay must not drop objects it received,
and end both race orders that way once the model can mark a missing head.
The docs no longer claim a mid-group stream is dropped after a refusal.

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