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 ## Required
 
 - [Counted field-less `trun` entries](/quest/m1/cut-audit/fmp4-sample-resolver.md) - a moof of field-less runs cannot materialize millions of sample entries
-- [A compressed announce path never outgrows its literal form](/quest/m1/cut-audit/announce-path-bytes.md) - lite-07 announce compression cannot build multi-MiB paths
 - [A reserved group survives a route returning](/quest/m1/cut-audit/reserved-route-return.md) - a route flip A to B to A no longer panics a peeked reader
 - [JS tracks end clean only on a deliberate finish](/quest/m1/cut-audit/js-close-cause.md) - local close, violations, and unanswered requests end with errors
 - [Withdrawing a moq-transport FETCH or TRACK_STATUS ends it](/quest/m1/cut-audit/ietf-withdraw-resolve.md) - withdrawal during resolution releases the request
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-# [S] A compressed announce path never outgrows its literal form
-
-## Goal
-
-A lite-07 ANNOUNCE_START whose base/keep compression resolves to a path
-longer than one literal ANNOUNCE_START body could carry closes the session
-with PROTOCOL_VIOLATION, in Rust and `@moq/net`. A peer can no longer turn a
-12-byte message into a multi-MiB path that the decoder, the origin, and every
-forwarded copy hold.
-
-## Plan
-
-Found by the 2026-10-24 pre-cut audit at
-[151a529670](https://github.com/moq-dev/moq/commit/151a529670). Source-inferred,
-inherited from release (worse there under its 64 MiB message cap). Reachable
-only while `moq-lite-07-wip` is negotiated, which
-[Finalize moq-lite-07](/quest/m1/lite07-finalize.md) turns on by default.
-
-`Live::resolve_path` (`rs/moq-net/src/lite/compress.rs:48`) bounds a
-resolved suffix only by `Path::MAX_PARTS` (32). Thirty-two STARTs that each
-keep the previous suffix and append a ~64 KiB segment build a ~2 MiB suffix;
-every later START with `keep=31` copies it again for about 12 wire bytes, up
-to `Limits::announces` times. `origin.rs` `create_withheld` (about line 2176)
-claims a path it accepts "can be re-encoded when forwarded" but checks parts
-only. JS `AnnounceHistory` (`js/net/src/lite/announce.ts:383`) has the same
-parts-only check.
-
-- No new constant: the bound is the existing literal one. A resolved suffix,
-  and the prefix joined with it, must fit in a literal ANNOUNCE_START body
-  under `MAX_MESSAGE_SIZE`. Compression never expresses a path the literal
-  form could not.
-- Enforce the same byte bound in `create_withheld`, so a locally created
-  route is never one this wire cannot forward.
-- Extend the `announce_stream` fuzz target to assert every resolved path
-  encodes as a literal START.
-- Add the receiver rule to `drafts/draft-lcurley-moq-lite.md` (lite-07 is
-  unpublished, so this changes no published version).
-
-Public API: none. Wire: one receiver rule in the lite-07 draft.