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Problem

Main classified a fetch-only cache as live because Feed::Live defaults before a track is accepted. A parked routed track also fell back to that default when it had no serving copy. Both mirrored release regressions failed on main's liveness assertions.

Approach

Classify a plain cache from its existing accepted/open/feed state, and a routed cache from its actual serving copy. Snapshot the route and state together, then release the track lock before inspecting that copy.

Add runtime-free poll regressions with a fetched frame, accepted/idle/resumed/closed controls, and a warm parked copy followed by a live replacement. They use no async helpers or feature-gated test helpers, preserving the core poll API retained by #5503. Remove the completed quest and its references, preserving the separate FETCH edge-case quest.

Impact

• No public API or wire-format changes.
• Behavior: draft-20+ FETCH no longer treats fetch-only, closed, or parked caches as a live Largest Object edge, so a stale cache does not incorrectly cap or refuse the requested range. Known final-track boundaries remain handled independently.
• JS already refuses incoming FETCH; its wire handling and capabilities are unchanged.

Alternatives

Changing Feed defaults would also change subscription cache visibility. Special-casing the FETCH handler would duplicate liveness policy and miss routed copies.

Validation

Tested head: a1b0dbdac60a9501b98c96374a3f47f2e232df5e, chosen main base: 0d9e9ff78857003b305f11ebf07095af4c3cdd87.

• Reproduced both classification failures against unmodified main source, then both poll regressions passed after the source fix.
• Plain inline #[test] regressions run in the default merge gate; no runtime, wall-clock sleeps, or new feature gating.
• Rust formatting, diff whitespace check and quest check passed (480 documents).
• Clean committed-head nix develop --command env MOQ_STRICT=1 just check 0d9e9ff78857003b305f11ebf07095af4c3cdd87: passed, including 6312 affected Rust tests, feature checks/tests, docs, repository lints and quest validation.
• Required final-head just test interop --all: passed. All 45 media publisher/subscriber cells, denied-publication checks, browser refusal close code, CLI FETCH close, and five finite-tail lanes passed. The initial ignored wire interop tests also passed.

Follow-ups

No implementation decisions remain. The related exact-final/FETCH_OK range checks remain in quest/m1/fetch-edge-cases.md; this PR does not expand that scope. The release line already carries the corresponding liveness fixes from #5402.

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Marked ready after strict MOQ_STRICT=1 just check 0d9e9ff78857003b305f11ebf07095af4c3cdd87 and full just test interop --all passed on clean head a1b0dbdac60a9501b98c96374a3f47f2e232df5e.

Both mirrored regressions exposed main's classification bug and now pass using plain core poll APIs. No public API or wire-format changes; the behavior fix keeps fetch-only, closed and parked caches from supplying a live Largest Object edge. No implementation decisions remain; the separate FETCH edge-case scope is preserved.

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Reviewed commit a1b0dbd. No actionable bugs found.

The source-level classification is the right scope: a plain cache must be published, open and live; a routed cache derives liveness from its actual serving copy, without retaining the track-state lock during that lookup. This avoids changing Feed defaults or duplicating policy in FETCH. The FETCH caller still handles declared final-track boundaries independently, so rejecting stale-cache Largest Object does not erase known final boundaries.

The poll-only regressions exercise a real fetched frame, accepted/idle/resumed/closed controls, and a parked warm cache followed by a live replacement. The separate exact-final/FETCH_OK edge cases remain outside this change.

Verification: GitHub-only static inspection of changed code, lifecycle paths, FETCH usage and regressions. No tests or interoperability runs executed; author-reported results were not independently reproduced.

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Walkthrough

Non-route tracks now count as live only when published, open, and using a live feed. Added tests cover fetch-only and parked caches, including a FETCH beyond the cached objects. The m1 quest list, related link, and live-feed quest document were removed.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to e79e4

Fetch-only, closed, and parked caches no longer supply a live Largest Object edge, and the publisher regression checks the uncapped empty FETCH_OK response. No concrete merge-blocking risk remains.

Pre-merge checks: 5

Passed checks: 5 passed

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title clearly and concisely identifies the main change: distinguishing live feeds from retained caches.
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rs/moq-net/src/model/track.rs: 1

7411-7447: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add a publisher-level regression for a fetch-only cache.

a_fetch_only_cache_is_not_live checks only Consumer::is_live(). It does not run the FETCH handler or assert the resulting FETCH_OK/InvalidRange behavior. The existing publisher matrix covers accepted live, idle, finished, datagram, and aborted tracks, but it does not create a track that has only served a FETCH and never accepted its live feed.

Add a draft-20 FETCH case for that state. Assert that the FETCH is not capped or rejected from a live Largest Object edge. Keep the separate explicit final-track boundary behavior unchanged.

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Review comment at @rs/moq-net/src/model/track.rs around lines 7411 - 7447:
Add a publisher-level draft-20 FETCH regression for the fetch-only state
established in a_fetch_only_cache_is_not_live, exercising the FETCH handler and
asserting it is neither capped nor rejected based on a live Largest Object edge.
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Merge summary for 667b96b15b44b1771a74a4ee07ec882b20ad0b02 (on top of the reviewed a1b0dbdac).

• Addressed the CodeRabbit nitpick: added a_draft20_fetch_of_a_fetch_only_cache_is_not_capped in rs/moq-net/src/ietf/publisher.rs. It reserves an unaccepted track, fills group 4 through a prior fetch, then sends a draft-20+ FETCH past its newest object. It now gets FETCH_OK echoing the requested end with no objects and no End of Track. Before the fix, the same test was refused with INVALID_RANGE.
• Test-only change since the OpenAI review. cargo test -p moq-net --lib fetch (133 passed), clippy -D warnings and rustfmt are clean.
• No public API or wire changes. No open decisions. The exact-final/FETCH_OK range checks stay in quest/m1/fetch-edge-cases.md.

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Automated review by review (OpenAI)

Reviewed commit 667b96b against a1b0dbd, with an unchanged base.

No actionable bugs found in the new publisher-level regression. It creates a genuinely fetch-only cache without accepting a live feed, then checks the actual FETCH_OK/end-of-track/object response for drafts 20–22. Finishing the cached group does not finish the track. Restoring the old live classification would reject this range as past Largest Object, so this closes the coverage gap noted in #5505 (review) . No production behavior changed in this update.

Verification: static inspection of the test, helpers and cache/FETCH lifecycle only. No tests executed.

[kixelated]

Merged origin/main (6e06a956b) to clear the merge-queue conflict. The only conflict was the quest/m1/README.md index: I kept main's two new subscribe-close entries and dropped the fetch-live-feed entry this PR completes. Main's changes to track.rs (fetch outcome accepted) merged cleanly and are orthogonal to is_live; no IETF publisher/subscriber code changed.

Strict just check 6e06a956b passed (6326 Rust tests), along with the 133 FETCH tests and the parked-cache regression. Re-enqueued at e79e436bf78b4f84d61f1129784e747788de33c6.

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