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Completes quest/m1/route-seqno-bumps.md.

Summary

A lite-07 node used to call router.bump() on every announce stream it registered or dropped, and again when Routed::limit refiled a stream on a permit change. A lite-07 client connecting to and leaving a relay therefore made the relay send a ROUTE_UPDATE for its own identity on every link carrying it, at least four times per client session.

Now route::Node keeps the set of streams that are route links, and bumps only when one of them closes:

• a stream whose peer forwarded it a route (a finite advert with metric > 0; only the peer's own route has metric 0), or
• on a node that forwards nothing (Link::proxy == false), every stream it answers once its route goes out on it (a stream whose prefix matches no claim carries none).

Opening a stream never bumps: a new link lengthens no path. Routed::limit hands the old stream's route-link membership to its replacement (replaced_by), so a refile is no link change and the session stays a link.

Choices made without asking

• What counts as a route link: the quest's recommendation, with "does the node forward" read from the answered stream's Link::proxy.
• Close only (the narrower rule): taken. reconnect_without_restart_needs_a_seqno_advance runs on Router via Sim, which never bumped on link changes (it covers the ROUTE_REQUEST path), so it passes either way. restart_reusing_identity_is_refused, named by the quest and the routes README, does not exist in the tree; the README no longer cites it.
• Reproduction at the node, not a three-relay mesh: a_relay_bumps_only_when_a_route_link_closes in route/node.rs counts the ROUTE messages a relay's peer streams get when a client session opens and closes (0 now, 1 per stream on main) and when a permit refile happens (0), and checks that losing a forwarding peer still sends one ROUTE_UPDATE. A mesh-wide count belongs to the mesh sweep, which now states this budget.
• TLA+: RouteHandoff.tla never modelled link-change bumps (its seqno only advances on OnRequest), so there is nothing to mirror.

Known gap: a non-forwarding node that learned this node's route through a forwarding peer which in turn has no other forwarding neighbours keeps its feasibility distance and waits on a ROUTE_REQUEST round trip after a move. That is the cost the quest's rule accepts.

ROUTE budget per session event

• A client that forwards nothing joins or leaves: 0 ROUTE for the relay's own identity.
• Any session opens: 0.
• A session whose peer forwarded a route closes: one ROUTE_UPDATE of the node's own identity on each remaining link carrying it.
• A non-forwarding node loses a session that carried its route: one ROUTE_UPDATE on each remaining link.

Impact

Public API: none. Wire: none.

Caused by

No single PR: the per-stream bump is as old as the lite-07 route node.

Follow-ups

None.

Models

Size: S
Implementer: Claude Code, claude-opus-5-5, low effort
Implementer: Claude Code, claude-opus-5-5, low effort (iterate, S)

Review

Rewritten by quest review after each round.

• Reviewer: Codex, gpt-6.1-sol, medium effort
• Session: 01a1c9ed-77d2-7f20-afd2-ffdb6bc7ec37, round 4
• Head: cb54dba
• Base: origin/main at 3705f81
• Score: 10/10, The branch’s incremental changes correctly adapt route-link detection and its tests to non-Copy advertisements, with no new issues found by code inspection.
• Findings: none

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Walkthrough

The router now tracks streams whose closure can change a path and advances its seqno when a tracked stream closes. Replacement streams inherit route-link tracking. The change also updates routing documentation and adds tests for relay and publisher seqno behavior.

Merge Risk: Low · previous review 96d94

Closing an answer stream that never carried a route can cause unnecessary route updates. This is a small, bounded inefficiency and does not block merging, but it is worth fixing.

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- Around line 479-480: Update the tracking in Node::answer so a stream is added
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origin is true. Keep the stream tracked across route replacements once that
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ℹ️ No critical issues — one contract-doc leftover from the narrowed rule.

Reviewed changes

• Route links on the node — route::Node now keeps the set of streams whose close changes a path to it (State.links) and bumps the seqno only when one closes.
• What counts as a link — Node::answer marks the stream when !link.proxy (an origin that forwards nothing), and Stream::route marks it once the peer forwards any route (metric > 0); opening a stream never bumps.
• Refile inheritance — Stream::replaced_by hands membership to the replacement before Routed::limit drops the old stream, so a permit refile costs no bump.
• Tests — two unit tests count ROUTE messages per session event: a client joining and leaving, a permit refile, and a forwarding peer leaving.
• Quest docs — the per-session-event ROUTE budget in the mesh sweep, the narrowed contract bullet, and the completed quest's removal.

I ran the full moq-net lib suite (3164 passed) and integration target (629 passed), including reconnect_without_restart_needs_a_seqno_advance, restart_reusing_identity_starves_until_requested and the routing-contract fixtures; rustfmt --check is clean on both changed Rust files. RouteHandoff.tla only advances the seqno on OnRequest, so the removal needs no model change, as the PR says.

ℹ️ The contract fixtures still state the old per-session rule

The README bullet was narrowed to "when a route link closes", but the fixture it was validated against still requires an advance on every session change, and the PR dropped a citation to a test that does exist.

Technical details

# The seqno rule narrowed; its fixtures still state the old one

## Affected sites

- `rs/moq-net/tests/integration/routing_contracts/mod.rs:70-73` — "The origin
  must advance its seqno whenever its own sessions change." That is the rule
  this PR replaces: a stream opening never bumps, and a client session closing
  bumps nothing.
- `quest/m2/cluster-routing/routes/README.md:140` (in this diff) — the bullet
  dropped `restart_reusing_identity_is_refused` on the grounds that it "does
  not exist in the tree". It does exist, at
  `rs/moq-net/tests/integration/routing_contracts/mod.rs:44` (it runs in the
  integration target, 629 passed). Only the quest's `route/tests/` location was
  wrong; that directory holds `restart_reusing_identity_starves_until_requested`
  instead. Dropping the sentence about restarts is reasonable, since a
  close-only bump no longer rescues a restart, but the file is still the
  contract's fixture for what follows it: "A random identity alone does not
  keep a dead incarnation away."

## Required outcome

- The routing-contract fixture describes the narrowed rule, so the reference
  model and the README it cites agree.
- The README keeps a reference to `restart_reusing_identity_is_refused` where it
  describes why a random identity alone is not enough.

## Suggested approach

- Reword `mod.rs:73` to "The origin must advance its seqno when a route link
  closes."
- Cite `restart_reusing_identity_is_refused` at the dead-incarnation sentence,
  or restore it beside `reconnect_without_restart_needs_a_seqno_advance`.

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✅ No new issues found.

Reviewed changes

• Deferred link membership — a non-forwarding node's answer streams are kept in a new State.origins set and join links only once the node's declared route is actually sent on them, so a stream whose prefix matches no claim costs no seqno advance when it closes.
• Membership follows a refile — Stream::replaced_by now carries the origins entry to the replacement alongside the links entry.
• Cleanup — the failed-register path and Drop for Stream clear the origins entry, so no key is left behind.
• Test — a_publisher_bumps_when_any_session_closes gains an answer stream on an unmatched prefix and asserts its close leaves the surviving link silent.

I traced the new check against Router::selected: an originated id always selects Some(next: None), so the reach.is_some() guard only ever sees Finite for the declared identity, and only answer streams carry the route (asks sets asked, never watch, so receive streams are never advertised to). That makes origins exactly the set of streams that can carry a publisher's route. Tests pass locally: cargo test -p moq-net --lib --features async route::node::tests (15 passed) and cargo test -p moq-net --test integration --features async routing_contracts (56 passed).

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✅ No new issues found.

Reviewed changes

Since the prior Pullfrog review (df0c0644), the branch merged main and adapted to its non-Copy route adverts (cb54dbae):

• Non-Copy advert adaptation — Advert/Reach lost Copy to the hop list from #8487 and the RTT from #8458, so Stream::route now matches &reach for the metric > 0 link check and then moves reach into Router::route; nothing else in node.rs needed to change.
• Test fixtures follow Advert's new fields — finite() builds rtt: None, hops: [].into(), and routes() returns the finite ROUTE seqnos for an id (panicking on any non-finite reach) instead of full Option<Reach> values, so the bump assertions pin the seqno rather than the hops and RTT that main now varies.
• Quest docs reconciled with main — main replaced quest/m1/route-mesh-sweep.md with rs/moq-net/tests/integration/mesh_sweep.rs, so the merge drops this PR's edits to that quest, rewrites README item 20 without the now-dead quest link, and points the deleted quest at the test.

I re-checked the two invariants the adaptation leans on: Link::cost is strictly positive (Router::connect refuses a zero cost), so a forwarded route can never arrive at metric 0 and metric > 0 still means "the peer forwards"; and Router::selected short-circuits on origins, so the declared identity always yields Finite with next: None and never Held, which is what State::flush's origins to links insertion assumes. cargo test -p moq-net --lib --features async route::node::tests passes (15 tests, both bump tests included) and rustfmt --edition 2024 --check rs/moq-net/src/route/node.rs is clean.

ℹ️ The PR description's mesh-sweep link is dead and overstates what the sweep states

The description says a mesh-wide count "belongs to the mesh sweep, which now states this budget", but that quest no longer exists after the merge, and rs/moq-net/tests/integration/mesh_sweep.rs bounds a change at the coarser 8 * sessions * (identities + claims). The per-session-event ROUTE budget the quest asked for now lives only in the PR description.

Technical details

# The per-session ROUTE budget lost its home

## Affected sites
- PR body, "Choices made without asking" — links `/quest/m1/route-mesh-sweep.md`, which main deleted in #8477.
- `rs/moq-net/tests/integration/mesh_sweep.rs:699-709` — `budget()` is `8 * sessions * (identities + claims)` per change, not the per-session-event budget the deleted quest asked the sweep to assert.

## Required outcome
- The description points at a file that exists and does not claim the sweep states a budget it lacks; alternatively, put the per-session ROUTE budget table (already in the description) in the sweep's module doc or the routes README where it will outlive this PR.

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