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Fixes #3050.

Root cause

lite::Subscriber keeps two views of one announce stream and they disagree.

announced_by_id assigns every received ANNOUNCE_START the next per-stream ordinal, deliberately including announces it drops locally, because the peer numbers them regardless and ended/restart reference the ordinal rather than repeating the path. The routes map held only announces that were accepted. So a dropped announce stayed bound to its id while its path read as free:

  1. ANNOUNCE_START id 0 for path P arrives with a chain that reflects back through us, so it is dropped. Id 0 is still recorded against P.
  2. ANNOUNCE_START id 1 for path P arrives and is routable. The double-announce check consults routes, finds nothing at P, and accepts it.
  3. ANNOUNCE_END id 0 resolves to P and removes routes[P], which is id 1's route.

Step 2 is also a protocol violation the receiver missed: draft-lcurley-moq-lite allows one current advertisement per path on a stream, and the peer sent two starts with no end between them.

Reflected loops are not a corner case. A relay meshed with its own peer drops them routinely, which is what makes step 1 the ordinary path into this.

The fix

The local acceptance record was standing in for the protocol's advertisement state. Announced replaces it: one record per path holding an Option<AnnouncedRoute>, where a declined announce is stored with no route rather than omitted. The id-to-path binding and the one-advertisement rule are then enforced against what the peer actually sent, and an ANNOUNCE_END for a declined id retires that record and nothing else.

The four ways an announce is declined (reflected by its sender, chain at MAX_HOPS, reflected through us, path outside our scope) all record the advertisement before returning.

Error::Duplicate now fires for a second ANNOUNCE_START at a path whose first announce we declined, where it previously did not. That is the violation from step 2, and reporting it is the point.

RESTART

RESTART replaces an advertisement that is already live, so it never consults the one-per-path rule, and restart_announce becomes its sole handler. It already attached a route when nothing was there, which is what the old "the original announce was dropped locally, so treat it as a fresh start" fallthrough was for; under the new record that path exists either way, so routing a restart through start_announce would now trip the duplicate error on a legal restart.

js/net has the same bug

Second commit. js/net's lite subscriber mirrors the shape exactly: advertised records only announces it surfaced, while announcedById numbers every one the peer sent, and the reflected-loop branch continues without recording. Same three steps, same outcome.

advertised now holds every advertisement the peer has live, carrying live: false for one skipped locally. retract() is a no-op for an advertisement never surfaced, so retiring a skipped id ends nothing, and a second ANNOUNCE_START for an advertised path throws on versions with announce ids, matching Error::Duplicate.

Tests

Rust: a_dropped_announce_still_holds_its_path walks steps 1 and 2 and asserts the second start is reported. Fails without the fix.

TypeScript: an announce skipped as a reflected loop still holds its path and retiring an id whose announce was skipped ends nothing both fail without the fix. a restart replaces an announce that was skipped as a reflected loop passes either way and is there to pin that the new declined state does not stop a restart attaching.

Cross-package sync

No wire, catalog, config, or CLI change: this is receiver-side bookkeeping of messages already defined in draft-lcurley-moq-lite, so no draft or doc row applies. The js/net row is covered by the second commit.

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`lite::Subscriber` assigned each received `ANNOUNCE_START` the next per-stream
ordinal, including announces it dropped locally, because the peer numbers them
regardless. The `routes` map held only announces that were accepted, so the two
disagreed about what was live at a path.

An `ANNOUNCE_START` dropped as a reflected loop left its path reading as free.
A second start for that path passed the double-announce check and attached a
route, and the first announce's `ANNOUNCE_END` then resolved to the path and
retired that route instead of nothing. Step two is also a violation the receiver
missed: the draft allows one current advertisement per path on a stream, and the
peer sent two starts with no end between them. A relay meshed with its own peer
drops reflected announces routinely, so this is the common case.

The root cause is that a local acceptance record stood in for the protocol's
advertisement state. Replace it with `Announced`, one record per path holding an
optional source: a declined announce is stored with no route rather than omitted,
so the id-to-path binding and the one-advertisement rule are enforced against
what the peer actually sent. An `ANNOUNCE_END` for a declined id now retires that
record and nothing else.

`RESTART` replaces an advertisement that is already live, so it never consults
the one-per-path rule, and `restart_announce` becomes its sole handler: it
attaches a route whether or not the original carried one, which is what the
old "treat it as a fresh start" fallthrough was for.

Fixes #3050

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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// between them. The receiver used to miss that because it consulted its own
// acceptance record, accept this one, and let id 0's end retire its route.

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P1 Badge Describe the current invariant instead of past behavior

Rewrite this comment in terms of the invariant the test enforces, such as requiring duplicate detection to consult the peer's advertisement state. The phrase "used to miss" records implementation history in source, where it will become stale as the bookkeeping evolves; repository guidance requires migration history to remain in the commit or PR description instead.

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The subscriber now uses Announced to track every live advertisement, including announcements declined for reflection, hop-limit, or scope reasons. Duplicate starts remain rejected. Restarts resolve advertisement IDs and can attach routes to previously declined advertisements. Explicit ends retire advertisements and finish attached sources. Tests cover duplicate detection, attribution, restart handling, stream loss, and retraction.

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rs/moq-net/src/lite/subscriber.rs (1)

433-435: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Update the Ok(false) cases in the doc comment.

start_announce now returns Ok(false) on four paths: sender reflection (Line 469), a full hop chain (Line 479), self reflection (Line 491), and a create_broadcast failure for an out-of-scope path (Line 532). The doc names only the reflected loop.

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-	/// Records the advertisement either way. Returns `Ok(true)` if it was accepted (and
-	/// a route was attached to the origin's broadcast at the path), `Ok(false)` if it was
-	/// dropped as a reflected loop.
+	/// Records the advertisement either way. Returns `Ok(true)` if it was accepted (and
+	/// a route was attached to the origin's broadcast at the path), `Ok(false)` if it was
+	/// declined locally: a reflected loop, a hop chain at MAX_HOPS, or a path outside our
+	/// scope.
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In `@rs/moq-net/src/lite/subscriber.rs` around lines 433 - 435, Update the
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`js/net`'s lite subscriber has the same shape as the Rust one: `advertised`
records only announces it surfaced, while `announcedById` numbers every one the
peer sent. An announce skipped as a reflected loop `continue`d without recording
anything, so its path read as free, a later announce took it, and the skipped
announce's `endedId` retracted that one's state.

`advertised` now holds every advertisement the peer has live, with `live: false`
for one skipped locally. `retract()` is a no-op for an advertisement never
surfaced, so retiring a skipped id ends nothing, and a second `ANNOUNCE_START`
for an advertised path throws on versions that have announce ids, matching
`Error::Duplicate` on the Rust side. A restart still attaches whether or not the
original was surfaced.

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const retract = () => {
const previous = advertised.get(suffix);
advertised.delete(suffix);
if (!previous?.live) return;

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P2 Badge Track ANNOUNCE_INIT entries before suppressing retractions

When a Draft01/02 peer lists a broadcast in ANNOUNCE_INIT and later sends an ended update for it, the initial suffix was appended before advertised was created and was never inserted into that map. Consequently previous is undefined here, so the subscriber returns without evicting the cached consume entry or emitting active: false, leaving consumers with a stale announcement for the rest of the stream. Seed advertised from the initial set or otherwise preserve these legacy retractions, with a Draft01/02 regression test. (Written by GPT-5.6 Sol)

AGENTS.md reference: AGENTS.md:L133-L133

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retract();
advertised.set(suffix, { publisher: undefined, live: false });
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P2 Badge Check duplicate starts before filtering reflected paths

When Lite06 receives a second ANNOUNCE_START for an already-advertised suffix and that second message's hop list contains this subscriber's origin, this branch retracts the existing route, overwrites its record with live: false, and continues before the duplicate check below. A second start is a protocol violation regardless of whether its route would be accepted, so this ordering silently emits an inactive event and keeps the invalid stream alive instead of rejecting it. Move the duplicate check ahead of reflected-route filtering and cover the reflected-second ordering with a regression test. (Written by GPT-5.6 Sol)

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