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Summary

moq-transport no longer sends a track's max age as MAX_CACHE_DURATION, in Rust (Properties::restated) or JS (trackProperties). Our max age expires only superseded groups, while draft 18 §12.3 expires every object, the newest included, so any value made a conformant relay drop a long-lived group such as the catalog, and a late joiner got nothing. A received MAX_CACHE_DURATION still decodes into max_age.

A MAX_CACHE_DURATION the publisher sealed in Immutable Properties is now advisory, like DEFAULT_PUBLISHER_GROUP_ORDER: forwarded as sent rather than compared, so ingress no longer refuses such a track.

Choices made without asking:

• Tested with unit tests on what gets encoded (Rust the_max_age_is_not_restated, JS a max age is never sent as MAX_CACHE_DURATION) rather than a §12.3-honoring relay in the interop runner, which has none.
• broadcast_max_age and the max_age relay tests (Rust and test/max-age/client.ts) now expect no max age over moq-transport.
• drafts/draft-lcurley-moq-ietf.md (with a changelog bullet), doc/concept/moq-lite.md, the max_age rustdoc, and test/max-age/README.md say the max age survives moq-lite and is dropped across moq-transport; a sealed MAX_CACHE_DURATION is advisory.
• a_sealed_max_cache_duration_is_forwarded also covers egress: the sealed block survives with no restated duration beside it.

Cost, accepted in the quest: across a moq-transport hop between our own relays the max age is lost.

Checks: just check, just test interop --all, and just test max-age pass. The optional CI Check failure was moq-relay config::tests::repository_configs_load on test/audio-quality/congestion.toml, a break on main that this PR did not cause.

Caused by

• moq-dev/moq#7729 - its zero default max age reaches moq-transport peers as an immediate expiry of every object

Impact

Public API: none. Wire: moq-transport SUBSCRIBE_OK, FETCH_OK, PUBLISH, and TRACK_STATUS_OK no longer carry MAX_CACHE_DURATION from us; compatible with every published draft.

Follow-ups

• The repository_configs_load failure on main from congestion.toml: plan it if no open PR already fixes it.

Closes #8465

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• Reviewer: Codex, gpt-6.1-sol, medium effort
• Session: 01a1ca7c-0e43-7fd3-8225-652ace8e95fb, round 1
• Head: deaf350
• Base: origin/main at 8472a3d
• Score: 9/10, The Rust and JS changes consistently omit MAX_CACHE_DURATION while preserving sealed properties, with no actionable defects found by source review; builds and tests were not run, as instructed.
• Findings: none

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Overall direction: Rust's restated properties and JS's shared trackProperties helper consistently stop translating max age into MAX_CACHE_DURATION. Received values still decode, and sealed values remain forwarded without the now-invalid equality check against a restated value. The encoding, status/fetch, and integration expectations match the intended loss of max-age propagation on moq-transport hops.

Verification limits: GitHub-only static review of the full patch, property encoding/decoding and forwarding, and publisher call sites. No builds, tests, or third-party relay interoperability run independently; the reported unrelated repository_configs_load failure was not reproduced.

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Important

The implementation is correct, but this PR changes the semantics the matching draft normatively defines, and drafts/ is the spec for rs/moq-net/js/net — the draft needs the same edit in this PR (see below).

Reviewed changes

• Rust egress stops restating the max age — Properties::restated always leaves max_cache_duration unset, so SUBSCRIBE_OK, TRACK_STATUS_OK, and FETCH_OK never carry MAX_CACHE_DURATION; track_properties is the only Rust egress builder.
• Sealed MAX_CACHE_DURATION becomes advisory — Properties::contradicts no longer compares it, so ingress accepts such a track and encode forwards the sealed block unchanged, like DEFAULT_PUBLISHER_GROUP_ORDER. A mutable one is still decoded into max_age and simply never re-emitted.
• JS matches Rust — trackProperties drops maxCacheDuration; subscriber.ts still maps a received value to maxAge. JS has no sealed-property refusal path, so no counterpart change was needed there.
• Expectations updated — Rust and JS unit tests, the TRACK_STATUS interop expectation, and the JS integration test now expect no max age over moq-transport (DRAFT_22 treated as not carrying it).
• Quest closed — quest/m0/ietf-max-age.md and its README entry are removed.

⚠️ The IETF extension draft still mandates restating the max age and refusing a differing sealed value

drafts/draft-lcurley-moq-ietf.md describes exactly the behavior this PR removes, so the implementation now contradicts its own spec. AGENTS.md requires a wire or semantic change to update the matching draft in the same PR, and drafts/AGENTS.md requires a changelog bullet.

Technical details

# Matching draft contradicts the new behavior

## Affected sites
- `drafts/draft-lcurley-moq-ietf.md:187` — "A relay restates up to five of those from TRACK_INFO, so it forwards at most 59 properties": the relay now restates four (TIMESCALE, DEFAULT_PUBLISHER_PRIORITY, DEFAULT_PUBLISHER_GROUP_ORDER, DYNAMIC_GROUPS) and may forward 60.
- `drafts/draft-lcurley-moq-ietf.md:188` — "Dropping those five" has the same count.
- `drafts/draft-lcurley-moq-ietf.md:190-191` — "The Immutable Properties may still hold one of those five, which a relay forwards in place of the one it would restate. A relay acts on TRACK_INFO, so a sealed value MUST equal the one it restates: MAX_CACHE_DURATION the Max Age in milliseconds ...": `Properties::restated` now states no max age, so there is nothing for a sealed one to equal or replace.
- `drafts/draft-lcurley-moq-ietf.md:192-193` — the advisory/refusal rule now covers `MAX_CACHE_DURATION` too; `properties.rs:371` no longer refuses a differing sealed value, so "A relay refuses a track whose sealed value differs" is false for it.
- `drafts/draft-lcurley-moq-ietf.md:265-268` — no changelog bullet for the semantic change.

## Required outcome
- The draft says what the code does: the max age is never restated from TRACK_INFO; a sealed `MAX_CACHE_DURATION` is forwarded unchanged and is never compared or refused; the restate/forward counts match the four restated properties.
- A bullet under `## Since draft-lcurley-moq-ietf-00 (in progress)` records the change.

## Open questions for the human
- Keep `MAX_CACHE_DURATION` in the line 183 "a relay interprets rather than forwards" list? The relay still applies it to TRACK_INFO's Max Age and never forwards a mutable copy, so it likely still belongs there — but the "five" accounting around it changes regardless.

ℹ️ User docs still promise the max age survives a moq-transport hop

The accepted cost of this PR is invisible in the docs a user reads to decide whether their max age reaches downstream readers.

Technical details

# Stale max-age reach claims

## Affected sites
- `doc/concept/moq-lite.md:375` — "Relays preserve that declaration": no longer true across a moq-transport hop.
- `doc/concept/moq-lite.md:383` — "IETF carries the same idea as `MAX_CACHE_DURATION`, measured in wall time alone": our IETF egress no longer carries it at all.
- `rs/moq-net/src/model/track.rs:140-143` — the rustdoc says a max age of `2^62` ms or more "cannot be put on lite-07 or IETF wires", implying it is otherwise encoded on IETF wires.

## Required outcome
- Both places state the condition (`doc/AGENTS.md`: a claim carries its conditions) — the declaration survives moq-lite hops and is dropped across moq-transport, since `MAX_CACHE_DURATION` would also expire the newest group, so a downstream hop keeps superseded groups only as its own cache allows.

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Walkthrough

JavaScript and Rust property generation no longer advertises track max age as MAX_CACHE_DURATION over moq-transport. Rust treats sealed MAX_CACHE_DURATION values as advisory and forwards them unchanged. Tests expect the property to be absent for moq-transport and retain max-age expectations for moq-lite. The protocol draft and documentation describe these rules.

Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to 2ad91

Max age is no longer sent over moq-transport, so late joiners on draft-18 relays can still receive the newest catalog. The cost is that max age is lost across a moq-transport hop. It is documented and was accepted by the author, so no blocking risk remains.

Pre-merge checks: 4 · 1

Failed checks: 1 warning

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage		Docstring coverage is 57.14% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documenta…	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

Passed checks: 4 passed

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title clearly and concisely states the main change: IETF no longer sends max age as MAX_CACHE_DURATION.
Description check		The description directly explains the implementation, protocol behavior, tests, documentation updates, and accepted tradeoff.
Linked Issues check		Issue [#8465] requires late joiners to receive the newest catalog through a draft-18 relay. Rust Properties::restated and JavaScript trackProperties no longer encode MAX_CACHE_DURATION from `max…
Out of Scope Changes check		The implementation, tests, protocol draft, and user documentation all describe or verify the [#8465] fix. The sealed MAX_CACHE_DURATION forwarding behavior remains within the same protocol change. T…

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Explanation

Issue [#8465] requires late joiners to receive the newest catalog through a draft-18 relay. Rust Properties::restated and JavaScript trackProperties no longer encode MAX_CACHE_DURATION from max_age. Rust, JavaScript, and integration tests verify the absent wire property. This removes the issue's zero-duration expiry condition. The PR uses the omission option and does not need to add the alternative FETCH behavior.

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Explanation

The implementation, tests, protocol draft, and user documentation all describe or verify the [#8465] fix. The sealed MAX_CACHE_DURATION forwarding behavior remains within the same protocol change. The deleted planning document is related to this implementation. No unrelated change is shown in the reviewed summary.

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ℹ️ No new issues in the new commits — one minor doc inconsistency below.

Reviewed changes

The delta since the prior pullfrog review (49a1da2) is tests and quest cleanup; no production code changed. The changed JS suites and the moq-net properties tests pass locally.

• Sealed MAX_CACHE_DURATION egress coverage — added a_sealed_max_cache_duration_is_forwarded, which keeps the refusal loop for 0/7000/7001 and round-trips a sealed block through Properties::restated.
• Max-age omission pinned — added the_max_age_is_not_restated, which encodes a 7-second max age and asserts the decoded property is None.
• moq-transport expectations aligned — changed the Rust broadcast/relay tests and the JS max-age client to expect no max age over moq-transport-18/22, splitting broadcast_max_age (lite) from broadcast_max_age_omitted (lite-01 plus both drafts).
• JS integration updated — narrowed carried to exclude Ietf.ALPN.DRAFT_22 in the authored-max-age integration test.
• Quest cleanup — removed the quest/m0 README entry alongside the already-deleted quest file.

Approval stays withheld on the earlier review's request to align drafts/draft-lcurley-moq-ietf.md and the user docs with the new semantics; these commits touch neither.

ℹ️ The max-age recipe README still promises received metadata is unchanged

test/max-age/README.md now describes the opposite of what the updated IETF assertions check.

Technical details

# Stale max-age recipe description

## Affected sites
- `test/max-age/README.md:4-6` — says "received metadata must remain unchanged", but `rs/moq-tokio/tests/integration/max_age.rs` overrides the expected age to `None` for non-lite versions and `test/max-age/client.ts` asserts `undefined` unconditionally, so both IETF legs check a drop. The JavaScript arms also run only `moq-transport-18`/`22`, never lite-07.

## Required outcome
- The README states that the max age survives lite-07 and is dropped across moq-transport, so a later reader does not restore the equality assertions.

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Addressed in deaf350: the IETF draft (counts, advisory sealed MAX_CACHE_DURATION, changelog), doc/concept/moq-lite.md, the max_age rustdoc, and test/max-age/README.md now say the max age survives moq-lite and is dropped across moq-transport.

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- Line 141: Clarify the documentation around `Info::max_age` that only egress
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✅ No new issues found.

Reviewed changes

The delta since the prior pullfrog review (3ef38f452) is a single docs commit (deaf350c9); no production code changed.

• Draft aligned with the new wire behavior — drafts/draft-lcurley-moq-ietf.md now says a relay restates only four of the interpreted properties, never MAX_CACHE_DURATION, and that a sealed MAX_CACHE_DURATION is advisory, with a changelog bullet recording the change.
• User docs state the reach — doc/concept/moq-lite.md and the max_age rustdoc in rs/moq-net/src/model/track.rs now say the declaration survives moq-lite hops but is dropped across moq-transport, since its MAX_CACHE_DURATION would also expire the newest group.
• Recipe README matches its assertions — test/max-age/README.md now describes the lite-07 preservation and the IETF drop instead of "received metadata must remain unchanged".

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ℹ️ No critical issues — one stale clause left in the draft's spec text.

Reviewed changes

The delta since the prior pullfrog review (deaf350c9) is a single docs commit (872d8e7dd); no production code changed.

• Sealed rule scoped to what a relay acts on — the draft now requires a sealed TIMESCALE, DEFAULT_PUBLISHER_PRIORITY, or DYNAMIC_GROUPS to equal the TRACK_INFO value, and makes a sealed MAX_CACHE_DURATION advisory beside DEFAULT_PUBLISHER_GROUP_ORDER.
• Restated count stated — a relay now restates up to four of the interpreted properties, never MAX_CACHE_DURATION, while still forwarding at most 59.
• max_age rustdoc corrected — rs/moq-net/src/model/track.rs says moq-transport egress never sends the max age since MAX_CACHE_DURATION would also expire the newest group, and that a received one still sets it.

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Reviewed changes

The delta since the prior pullfrog review (872d8e7dd) is a single docs commit (2ad91c301); no production code changed.

• Sealed-forwarding clause scoped — drafts/draft-lcurley-moq-ietf.md:190 now says the Immutable Properties may hold "one of the properties a relay restates", which matches the four properties Properties::restated still emits (TIMESCALE, DEFAULT_PUBLISHER_PRIORITY, DEFAULT_PUBLISHER_GROUP_ORDER, DYNAMIC_GROUPS).
• Sealed MAX_CACHE_DURATION stated as uncounted — the new line 191 records that it has no restated counterpart, travels beside none, and is never compared, matching contradicts returning false for it and restated leaving max_cache_duration: None.
• Open inline resolved — the prior ℹ️ finding about line 190's "one of those five" clause is addressed, and the author closed the thread.

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