[kixelated]

Problem

moq-transport request tokens were verified per request, ignored on several request types, and their auth-server leases could only report the connection's end.

Approach

• Share one token record per session while naming requests remain, with independent verdict readers and no contribution to session scope. The index lives on the session's link, outside the auth state whose locks wake every permit waiter.
• Gate supported incoming request types on their own tokens, including FETCH, TRACK_STATUS, discovery, and paused PUBLISH offers.
• A request is admitted by the session or by a token, and that never changes. An update on a token-admitted SUBSCRIBE, SUBSCRIBE_NAMESPACE, or PUBLISH_NAMESPACE renews its grant in place, including token plus pause and queued resume updates; one naming a token on a session-admitted request is refused. Keep stream credit until pending verification releases it.
• A tokenless PUBLISH_NAMESPACE the session's limit does not cover is refused UNAUTHORIZED, and a session-admitted one ends once the limit stops covering it; the publisher re-announces. NAMESPACE entries answering our own SUBSCRIBE_NAMESPACE keep detach-and-reattach.
• The acceptor sees which request named a token: auth::Request::kind() and path().
• A SUBSCRIBE_NAMESPACE update renewing its token is verified without stalling its stream: announcements, withdrawals, and NAMESPACE_DONE keep flowing while the verdict is pending, and later updates wait unread under the stream's flow control so replies stay in order.
• A joining FETCH follows its subscription's grant: one a token admitted holds the FETCH to that grant alone, renewals included, and ends it with the grant, past the subscription's end (main's model from moq-dev/moq#6999).
• Give HTTP attachments an auth identity and report their own end before the connection end. Count a JWT while any attachment on that connection uses it.

Impact

• Breaking HTTP auth contract: Client::attach sends event: "attach" and a fresh auth id. Revalidation and end retain that id. Migrate auth servers to accept attach, release only the named credential on an end carrying auth, and release the connection on an end without it. Older servers refuse attach before admission.
• Rust adds Event::Attach and Request::auth; JavaScript's request schema mirrors them. Attached lease reported() waits for its own end report.
• No MoQ framing or negotiation change. Rust incoming request tokens use their own grant; repeating a token across open requests shares verification and lifetime, and a token whose verdict the acceptor already finished verifies again. Tokens remain isolated from session scope. Outgoing and non-Rust request-token surfaces remain in their existing quests.
• A shared token's verification holds the slot of the request that first named it until the acceptor answers or the last naming request ends, rather than each request's own slot.
• Behavior change for publishers without a token: a moq-transport PUBLISH_NAMESPACE outside the session's limit is now refused UNAUTHORIZED instead of acknowledged and held, and an accepted one ends (its request stream finishes, as when a token lapses) when the limit stops covering it. A publisher re-announces once its limit widens; moq-net's own publisher retries a refused announce on its backoff timer. NAMESPACE entries answering our SUBSCRIBE_NAMESPACE are still held and reattached.
• A REQUEST_UPDATE naming a token on a request the session admitted is refused with NOT_SUPPORTED ("AUTHORIZATION TOKEN on a request admitted without one"), as on main; this PR no longer lets an update introduce a first token.
• Rust API (additive): moq_net::auth::RequestKind is public and #[non_exhaustive], and auth::Request gains kind() and path(). They name the request that first named the token (None for an AUTH-stream token).

Addresses points 2 to 4 of moq-dev/moq#7646; point 1 is the separate quest quest/m1/auth-expiry-reset.md, planned in moq-dev/moq#7665.

Decisions

• HTTP attachment lifecycle: ✅ keep explicit attach with an auth identity (recommended); use a separate lease API. Selected under the user's AFK authorization on 2026-10-29. Older servers refuse before admission; migration is listed under Impact.
• Tokens per request: ✅ retain the existing one-token limit (recommended); combine multiple tokens. One authority per request keeps isolation and renewal unambiguous.
• Updates: ✅ introduce or replace request-local authority, including token plus pause (recommended); keep refusal paths. Naming a token never widens session scope. Superseded for session-admitted requests by the 2026-11-03 decision below: an update now only renews a token-admitted request.
• Namespace update verification (maintainer, 2026-11-01, design change): ✅ fix the CodeRabbit finding in this PR, keeping the pending verdict in the namespace loop's state (recommended); defer it to a follow-up.
• Session-authorized requests (maintainer, 2026-11-03, moq-dev/moq#7646 point 2, /quest-import): a REQUEST_UPDATE carrying AUTHORIZATION TOKEN T on a request admitted without a token: ✅ keep refusing; allow moving to T's auth. A request is admitted by the session or by a token, and that never changes. This removes RequestBinding, RequestGrant::guard_named, and the first-token paths on SUBSCRIBE, SUBSCRIBE_NAMESPACE, and PUBLISH_NAMESPACE.
• Tokenless PUBLISH_NAMESPACE outside the limit (maintainer, 2026-11-03, moq-net auth: expiry vs deny codes, renewal on session-authorized requests, tokenless PUBLISH_NAMESPACE, kind/path on auth::Request #7646 point 3): ✅ refuse UNAUTHORIZED; keep the hold. A publisher whose limit widens re-announces.
  • How far the hold goes (maintainer, 2026-11-03, this iteration): ✅ remove the hold entirely for PUBLISH_NAMESPACE, also ending an accepted one with UNAUTHORIZED once the limit stops covering it or its last covering token leaves; refuse new announces only (recommended).
  • NAMESPACE entries answering our SUBSCRIBE_NAMESPACE, which cannot be refused and are never re-sent (maintainer, 2026-11-03): ✅ keep detach-and-reattach for them, so run_limit/reattach stay but serve only them (recommended); ignore with no recovery; ignore, then resubscribe on a widening.
• auth::Request kind and path (maintainer, 2026-11-03, moq-net auth: expiry vs deny codes, renewal on session-authorized requests, tokenless PUBLISH_NAMESPACE, kind/path on auth::Request #7646 point 4): own quest; ✅ fold into ietf-token-auth; no. RequestKind becomes pub and #[non_exhaustive], with Request::kind() and Request::path() beside token().
• Paper trail (maintainer, 2026-11-03): ✅ record these prompts in this PR's Decisions (recommended); restore quest/m1/ietf-token-auth.md with Plan notes. This PR finishes the quest and deletes it.
• Joining FETCH (newer decision followed): main's moq-dev/moq#6999, merged after this PR's checkpoint, lets an answered joining FETCH outlive its subscription under the subscription's grant. The merge keeps that, replacing this PR's earlier "follow the parent without holding its lease" model. (Its extension to a token named later by an update went with the 2026-11-03 decision.)

Alternatives

Independent connection ids for token leases would change connection accounting. Overloading the existing connection end could let an older server end the whole connection. The explicit attachment lifecycle fails closed against older servers.

Changes in this iteration

Iteration 8 (after the maintainer took the PR out of the queue over an unresolved online finding):

• CodeRabbit: Held::poll_end checked the armed deadline before reading the acceptor's replies, so a same-token extension sent before the old expiry but read only after it ended the request as Expired. It now reads a pending Reply::Grant first (1a3ae66). A dropped or refused grant still yields to an expiry that already passed and reports Expired, and the renewal handover keeps its precedence. Test: an_extension_read_after_the_old_expiry_keeps_the_request, which fails without the fix. Replied and resolved.
• Merged main (3be57ca, conflict-free).

Iteration 7 (the maintainer folded moq-dev/moq#7646 points 2 to 4 into this PR on 2026-11-03; see Decisions):

• Point 2, session-admitted requests stay so (82ca068): an update naming a token on a session-admitted SUBSCRIBE (live or paused), SUBSCRIBE_NAMESPACE, or PUBLISH_NAMESPACE is refused, as on main, and never reaches the acceptor. RequestBinding, RequestGrant::guard_named, and poll_named_ended are gone. Each request keeps the Option<RequestGrant> it was admitted with, renewed in place, which is main's shape for Joined, Retain, the joining FETCH, and PUBLISH_NAMESPACE. RequestGrant::verify_renewal uses the grant's own slot again; verify_renewal_holding serves the namespace loop, which holds its stream credit instead. Tests: a_token_on_a_session_subscription_update_is_refused (live and paused, drafts 18 and 22), a_token_on_a_session_namespace_update_is_refused, a_token_on_a_session_announce_update_is_refused. The SUBSCRIBE_NAMESPACE non-blocking verification tests now start from a token-admitted request, so their updates are renewals. Removed with the behavior: a_first_subscription_token_replaces_session_scope, a_first_subscription_token_without_a_verifier_is_refused, a_first_announce_token_replaces_session_scope, a_joining_fetch_follows_a_token_an_update_names, a_kept_join_ends_with_a_token_an_update_named, a_first_token_binds_its_request_and_a_held_grant_keeps_its_lease, a_guard_follows_a_grant_named_later.
• Point 3, no hold for PUBLISH_NAMESPACE (82ca068): a tokenless PUBLISH_NAMESPACE outside the limit gets REQUEST_ERROR UNAUTHORIZED (unauthorized: <path>) before any OK, and a session-admitted one ends once the limit stops covering it, through the same path a lapsed token takes (stream FIN after OK, REQUEST_ERROR before it). NAMESPACE entries keep attach's hold, now documented as theirs alone. PUBLISH_NAMESPACE's grant and slot travel together as Admission. Tests: a_tokenless_announce_outside_the_limit_is_refused, a_narrowed_limit_ends_a_session_announce (a widened limit brings nothing back).
• Point 4, request kind and path (82ca068, 6c10d38): RequestKind is pub and #[non_exhaustive], documented per variant. Request::kind()/path() name the request that first named the token, and Link::verify_request takes them. Round 3 found a PUBLISH_NAMESPACE's first token reported as Publish; a subscribe-direction gate now reports PublishNamespace (6c10d38). Test: a_request_reports_the_kind_and_path_that_named_it.
• Docs: doc/concept/standard.md and drafts/draft-lcurley-moq-auth.md say a request's admission never changes, and the draft's changelog no longer says updates introduce tokens.
• Merged main twice, conflict-free (18043d3, 57ffdd9). The second brought moq-dev/moq#7665, whose quest/m1/auth-expiry-reset.md linked to the quest this PR deletes; 1c8c82f drops that link.

Merge pass 6 (the branch had conflicted with main since 2026-11-01; auto-merge disabled before pushing so the reviewed head is requeued by hand):

• Still needed: quest/m1/ietf-token-auth.md is unchanged on main and nothing there shares request-token grants or adds the attachment lifecycle. The PR does not touch PeerGrant (planned for deletion in quest/m2/auth-drop-peer-grant.md).
• Merged main twice (9e16bf2 hand-resolved, 9d48319 conflict-free). Main's moq-dev/moq#7306 keeps a cleanly finished subscription's join in Retain, bounded by its request grant and gate. Retain now holds this PR's RequestBinding and the gate the subscription was held to (the named gate once a token is named), so a token first named by an update still bounds the kept join. New test a_kept_join_ends_with_a_token_an_update_named (fails with main's unnamed-only bound).
• Main's moq-dev/moq#7439 / moq-dev/moq#7296 give poll_withdrawn/until_withdrawn a fin_cancels flag. admit_request takes it too: false for TRACK_STATUS, as main's TRACK_STATUS path does, fin_cancels(version) for FETCH and SUBSCRIBE_NAMESPACE; the namespace loop and the PUBLISH token wait in subscriber/tracks.rs use fin_cancels(version).
• The relay test request_token_lease_ends_before_the_connection_and_reopens_later builds its cluster through spawn_cluster, since main's Cluster::new now returns its driver.
• Local review round 1 found that a SUBSCRIBE_NAMESPACE update replacing an already-bound token verified it fresh, so the old grant expiring or being dropped before the loop applied an approved replacement ended discovery. Gate::verify now verifies a bound gate's token through RequestGrant::verify_renewal, which takes the caller's hold so the namespace loop keeps its stream credit (8af7a27). New test a_bound_gate_hands_over_to_a_granted_replacement (fails without the fix). Held::hold became _hold: it still keeps the request's slot for the grant's life.

Merge pass 5 (after landing stopped with head_moved; the branch conflicted with main):

• Merged main twice (21615aa, 0f9f853). Main's moq-dev/moq#7239 removes MoQ Epoch from moq-transport. The conflicts in fetch.rs, publisher.rs, and subscriber.rs keep this PR's request-token decoding, Namespaces verification state (abandon_verification, rescope), and PUBLISH_NAMESPACE update binding, and drop the epoch parameter, the restart replaces check, and the epoch tests with main. One test this PR adds (a token FETCH) drops its epoch field and the handle_stream flag main removed.
• Declined CodeRabbit's nitpick to cut the SETUP credential bullet in doc/concept/standard.md: the error codes, refusal rules, and reconnect behavior it would move predate this PR on main, which only rewrites the per-request lifetime sentences. Restructuring the page is a separate docs change.

Merge pass 4 (after quest land stopped on failed_checks: batch checks failed with E0433: cannot find module or crate moq_clock once moq-dev/moq#7027 moved moq-clock into kio::clock):

• Merged main. Every moq_clock use this PR adds is now kio::clock / #[kio::test]. The five conflicts in publisher.rs and subscriber.rs were main's rename against this PR's edits (checked mechanically: main's side equals the base with only the rename), resolved to this PR's side with the rename.
• The automated review on 5aad955 (review) found that a failed write in the SUBSCRIBE_NAMESPACE loop returned past abandon_verification, releasing the stream's credit while the acceptor still held a pending token. run_namespaces now runs the loop (forward_namespaces) and then always drains a pending verification. The local review then found the same leak through the request's lifetime guard, which dropped the whole loop when its token ended: the guard now wraps only forward_namespaces, and abandon_verification keeps the credit in Namespaces::abandoned until released, so a drain the guard cancels is finished by the cleanup outside it.
• New tests: a_failed_write_keeps_a_verifying_update_stream_until_the_application_answers, an_ended_token_keeps_a_verifying_update_stream_until_the_application_answers, an_ended_token_does_not_cut_short_a_withdrawal_verification_drain, each confirmed to fail without its fix. The test transport gains Log::fail_writes to fail send-stream writes.

Merge pass 3 (after landing stopped with head_moved):

• run_namespaces no longer awaits admit_request inline for a SUBSCRIBE_NAMESPACE update carrying a token (review). The pending verdict lives in Namespaces::verifying and is polled beside the grant, the stream, and the origin, so announcements, withdrawals, and a NAMESPACE_DONE from session-scope narrowing go out while it waits. While a verdict is pending the loop reads no further update, watching the stream only for withdrawal (as admit_request did), so later updates wait under the stream's flow control and are answered in order. An earlier draft queued them in memory; the local review found that unbounded (round 1). A withdrawal mid-verification still keeps the stream credit until the acceptor lets go. An admitted token still authorizes beyond the local scope.
• New tests: a_pending_update_token_does_not_hold_up_announcements, updates_behind_a_pending_token_are_answered_in_order, narrowing_withdraws_while_an_update_token_is_pending, a_withdrawn_namespace_update_keeps_its_stream_until_the_application_answers (the last confirmed to fail with the credit wait removed).
• Merged main twice: a hand-resolved conflict in subscriber.rs subscribe_once (keeps this PR's request gate and main's session work guard from moq-dev/moq#7462), then moq-dev/moq#7284, which removed write_publish_error; the token PUBLISH refusal in subscriber/tracks.rs now uses main's buffer_error + deliver.

Merge pass 2 (after quest land stopped on a merge conflict):

• Main's moq-dev/moq#7236 refuses every inbound SUBSCRIBE_TRACKS with NOT_SUPPORTED and deletes ietf/publisher/tracks.rs. The merge accepts the deletion, so token-gated listings and the PUBLISHes a token-admitted SUBSCRIBE_TRACKS sent are gone with it. NamespaceUpdate keeps its request token and takes main's non-generic form.
• The RequestGrant observer machinery (observe, observe_as, Gate::token_observer, the renewal counter and source link) served only those listed PUBLISHes, so it is removed with its tests, fixing the dead-code clippy failure on ec83acc (review).
• The new relay test request_token_lease_ends_before_the_connection_and_reopens_later uses moq_clock::timeout, per main's clock lint (moq-dev/moq#7329).
• 41f1de5 merges the fixer's ec83acc with the ours strategy: its tree equals the reviewed e7ae6c5.

Merge pass 1:

Merge pass (/quest-merge), addressing the reviews posted on 574da4a and one local review finding:

• Gate::poll_permit read the session permit and registered its wakeup under two locks, so a session change between them could advance the epoch without its permit. It now reads both through Link::poll_permit alone (review).
• An observed grant, such as a PUBLISH under a token listing or the FETCH joined to it, copied its source's verdict and ended with a token the source had already renewed away from. Observers now adopt their source's renewals and end with its end latch (review).
• A SUBSCRIBE_NAMESPACE whose token ended after REQUEST_OK wrote a post-OK REQUEST_ERROR. It now ends the stream as the request's guard does (review). Its guard also follows a first token that an update names (local review round 1).
• A refused update token on a listed PUBLISH now answers REQUEST_ERROR, then PUBLISH_DONE UPDATE_FAILED. It ends the grant first, so a FETCH joined under it stops even when the answer waits on credit (review, follow-up).
• A refused PUBLISH token finishes its stream so the refusal is delivered (review).
• Merged main (conflict-free), which picks up moq-dev/moq#7245 so cargo works in nested checkouts.
• The optional pullfrog check failed because its model timed out (run). It posted no findings.

Earlier iteration:

• Merged main twice (fix(net): answer IETF FETCH as the JS publisher does #6999's FETCH rework and RequestGrant end latch, refactor(net): limit IETF publishers to one-group history #7204, fix(net)!: one strict path rule, minted and parsed #7037, feat(net): bring back moq-transport draft 20 #7190 draft 20, feat!: demand reads as wanted everywhere #7036 kio rename). Hand-resolved auth.rs, publisher.rs, publisher/tracks.rs, subscriber.rs, request_stream.rs.
• Fixed: a joining FETCH ignored a token its subscription's update named later; PUBLISHes under a token-admitted SUBSCRIBE_TRACKS ran on the session scope; their joining FETCHes ignored the token, then ignored the token narrowing away from the track; a bound-token permit never reported the token ending; a finished verdict was shared instead of re-verified.
• Performance: the shared-token benchmark found the token index in the handle's kio::Shared state, so every request naming or releasing a token woke every announce route. 32 tokens × 32 requests took 178 ms per round against main's 14.6 ms; with the index on the link it takes 32.7 ms.
• Deleted the finished quest quest/m1/ietf-token-auth.md and its links.

Validation

On 3be57ca (iteration 8), through quest gate inside nix develop: just ci origin/main passed (9833 Rust tests), and quest check --base origin/main is ok. On 1a3ae66: cargo clippy -p moq-net --all-targets --all-features -D warnings clean, and cargo nextest over the moq-net and moq-relay auth, ietf, revalidation, and lifetime tests passed (1201).

On 1c8c82f (iteration 7), through quest gate inside nix develop: just ci origin/main passed (9831 Rust tests), and quest check --base origin/main is ok. On 6c10d38: cargo clippy -p moq-net --all-targets --all-features -D warnings clean, and cargo nextest over moq-net's auth and ietf tests passed (1087). Each new refusal test fails on the previous head's first-token behavior by construction; a_narrowed_limit_ends_a_session_announce and a_tokenless_announce_outside_the_limit_is_refused fail against the hold.

On 9d48319 (merge pass 6), through quest gate inside nix develop: just ci origin/main passed (9816 Rust tests). cargo clippy -p moq-net -p moq-relay -p moq-auth --all-targets --all-features -D warnings clean on the fix commit. quest check --base origin/main ok. The first just ci run on 9e16bf2 failed to compile the relay test above, fixed in the next commit.

On 0f9f853 (merge pass 5), through quest gate inside nix develop: just ci origin/main passed (9611 Rust tests). On 21615aa (the first merge; the second brings only moq-cli and moq-hls changes): cargo clippy -p moq-net -p moq-relay -p moq-auth --all-targets --all-features -D warnings and cargo fmt clean. cargo nextest for moq-net, moq-relay, moq-auth with all features: 3930 of 3931 passed; stack::debug_relay_load_and_run_fit_windows_stack overflows its 1 MiB stack under --all-features, and does the same on main (da0a9e1), so it predates this PR; it passes in just ci.

On 5505939 (merge pass 4), through quest gate inside nix develop: just ci origin/main passed.

On 5aad955 (merge pass 3), through quest gate inside nix develop: cargo nextest for moq-net, moq-relay, moq-auth, all features: 3918 passed, 21 skipped. cargo clippy -p moq-net -p moq-relay -p moq-auth --all-targets --all-features -D warnings and cargo fmt clean. just ci origin/main passed (9508 Rust tests). On the earlier c303c72, just ci hit two host-resource flakes (an io_uring RLIMIT_MEMLOCK failure in uring_peer_session_widens_quic_limits and an ffmpeg timeout in the browser interop test); both passed on rerun.

On e7ae6c5 (the tree of 41f1de5), through quest gate inside nix develop: cargo nextest for moq-net, moq-relay, moq-auth, all features: 3910 passed, 21 skipped. cargo clippy -p moq-net -p moq-relay -p moq-auth --all-targets --all-features -D warnings and cargo fmt --check clean. quest check --base origin/main ok.

On dc05707 (this merge pass), through quest gate: cargo nextest for moq-net (3228 passed), moq-relay and moq-auth (680 passed), all features; cargo clippy -p moq-net -p moq-relay -p moq-auth --all-targets --all-features -D warnings and cargo fmt --check clean. New regressions: an_observer_follows_its_sources_renewal, an_observer_ends_with_its_source, a_guard_follows_a_grant_named_later. a_joining_fetch_on_a_token_listed_publish_follows_the_token now also covers a refused renewal.

Earlier, on 574da4a unless noted:

• cargo nextest for moq-net, moq-auth, moq-relay (all features, all targets): 3905 passed, 21 skipped; cargo clippy -p moq-net --all-targets --all-features -D warnings clean.

• just ci origin/main: passed (876 s wall: check/test rs, rs_shapes, js, drafts, markdown, gh, quest, shell, toml, nix, justfile).

• just test interop --all: passed: the Rust/JS wire and session preflight (9 tests), then 182 matrix cases across rust, python, go, browser, C++, native node/bun, C, and GStreamer clients, finite tails, compression, and version drops; no client marked broken. The earlier Cargo launch failure (Argument list too long) did not recur.

• cargo bench -p moq-net --bench auth -- auth/request_tokens (ms per round, this PR vs main with the same bench file):

  tokens × requests	1×1	1×8	1×32	8×1	8×8	8×32	32×1	32×8	32×32
  this PR	0.029	0.114	0.419	0.205	1.42	5.88	0.832	6.26	32.7
  main	0.028	0.116	0.424	0.201	0.919	3.66	0.802	3.73	14.6

  Single-token rounds match main. Multi-token rounds remain 1.5–2.2× slower and still grow mildly with tokens × requests. The profile no longer shows an auth hot spot (see Follow-ups).

Review

Iterations 7–8 and merge pass 6: Codex (quest review), gpt-6.1-sol, medium effort, one session on the merge-pass branch.

• Round 1 (head 9e16bf2): a SUBSCRIBE_NAMESPACE update replacing a bound token was not registered as a renewal, so the old grant could end discovery before an approved replacement applied. Fixed in 8af7a27 (a_bound_gate_hands_over_to_a_granted_replacement).
• Round 2 (head 9d48319): no findings.
• Round 3 (head 82ca068, iteration 7): a PUBLISH_NAMESPACE's first token reached the acceptor as RequestKind::Publish while its renewals said PublishNamespace. Fixed in 6c10d38.
• Round 4 (head 1c8c82f): no findings. Design checkpoint: nothing remains to fix, and the 2026-11-03 decisions simplified the design (a request's admission is fixed), so no rethink is needed.
• Online review: CodeRabbit found Held::poll_end ending an extended grant at its old expiry. Fixed in 1a3ae66.
• Round 5 (head 3be57ca): no findings.

Earlier merge passes (1–5) are recorded in this PR's history; merge pass 5's round 1 on 0f9f853 reported no findings.

Follow-ups

• The HTTP auth contract could forward Request::kind()/path() to the auth server, so an external server can authorize exactly what was asked too. Not requested; the Rust acceptor API is enough for moq-net auth: expiry vs deny codes, renewal on session-authorized requests, tokenless PUBLISH_NAMESPACE, kind/path on auth::Request #7646.
• An announce that ends after PUBLISH_NAMESPACE_OK (a lapsed token, or now a narrowed limit) reaches the peer only as a FIN; any wire code for it belongs with quest/m1/auth-expiry-reset.md.
• stack::debug_relay_load_and_run_fit_windows_stack overflows its 1 MiB stack on main under cargo nextest --all-features (passes in just ci's feature set).
• Profile the remaining 1.5–2.2× multi-token gap in auth/request_tokens (per-announce guard polling on the shared verdict is the likely cost).
• Accept a token renewal on a forwarding PUBLISH, or refuse it consistently while paused, and add a serve-level test for a token on a paused PUBLISH offer.
• quest review --harness claude fails with "not logged in" when CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR points at a profile without a stored login. It could explain which profile it checked.

Subscriber range and fill ownership from moq-dev/moq#7204 remain outside this change.

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Reviewed commit: 574da4a

One actionable P2 finding: the token-bound permit path can consume a concurrent session-permission update without applying its permit (inline).

Overall direction is sound: shared request-local grants keep credentials out of session scope, and explicit attachment identities make lease termination unambiguous. The additional binding/lifetime machinery is justified; keep permit snapshot and notification registration consistent rather than maintaining two independently read snapshots. The documented HTTP auth-server migration and remaining multi-token performance gap still need deployment/performance follow-through.

First published review here; no earlier automated findings to reconcile. Static inspection of auth state, request/FETCH/discovery wiring, HTTP lease accounting, JS contract and regression tests, including independent passes. I did not run builds, tests, benchmarks or interoperability checks.

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Walkthrough

The changes add credential-specific attach events and end reports to the auth-server contract and session lifecycle. They add request authorization-token fields to supported MoQ messages and implement per-token verification, grant scope, renewal, and termination across publisher and subscriber request flows. The changes also update tests, benchmarks, and documentation for these contracts and behaviors.

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to 9d483

The attachment and request-token changes have no established merge-blocking regression. Adding the suggested TRACK_STATUS round-trip assertion would improve coverage; the remaining expiry-order defect predates this change.

Pre-merge checks: 4 · 1

Failed checks: 1 inconclusive

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage		Docstring coverage is 60.61% 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 "feat(auth)!: share request-token grants and end attachment leases" matches the main change. The changeset adds shared request-token verification and lifetime tracking for incoming Rust requ…
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Out of Scope Changes check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Description check		The PR description is specific and on-topic. It describes shared request-token verification and lifetimes for moq-transport, the new HTTP attach lifecycle with an auth identity, the Rust API addit…

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Review comments at @rs/moq-net/src/auth.rs:
- Around line 2122-2146: Update observe_as so derived observers remain connected
to the source Held and use its current issue and epoch after renew accepts a
replacement verdict, rather than retaining stale copied values. Add a regression
test confirming an observer survives an accepted renewal.

Review comments at @rs/moq-net/src/ietf/publisher.rs:
- Around line 4347-4360: Update the NamespaceEvent::Denied branch to stop
writing REQUEST_ERROR after SUBSCRIBE_NAMESPACE has been accepted; retain
closing the established inline stream and returning normally.

Review comments at @rs/moq-net/src/ietf/publisher/tracks.rs:
- Around line 1106-1113: When `admit_request` refuses an update token, respond
with `write_subscribe_error` using the refusal’s error and reason before ending
the loop, then return `Served::UpdateFailed` with that error so the peer
receives REQUEST_ERROR followed by PUBLISH_DONE(UPDATE_FAILED).

Review comments at @rs/moq-net/src/ietf/subscriber/tracks.rs:
- Around line 806-809: In the refusal branch of serve_publish, finish the
request stream after write_publish_error completes and before returning,
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Reviewed commit: 2a864aa, compared with 574da4a and separated from the main-branch merge.

Fixed: the prior permit/epoch race now consumes every permit before advancing its epoch. Observer renewal propagation, refusal-stream finishing, and the late-first-token namespace guard are good targeted improvements.

P2 — refusal cleanup still depends on writable stream credit: rs/moq-net/src/ietf/publisher/tracks.rs:1115–1121 awaits write_subscribe_error before grant.end. The helper awaits poll_flush, so blocked stream credit postpones the end; a write error returns through ? without ending the grant at all. For a token-listed PUBLISH with an already-answered joining FETCH, pause the PUBLISH and send a refused token renewal: the FETCH can continue under the old grant while the listing still holds that shared token. Move grant.end(refusal.clone()) before the error write, and cover blocked/error writes with a joined-FETCH regression. This is a remaining cleanup gap in the earlier refusal-path finding, whose REQUEST_ERROR/PUBLISH_DONE ordering is now corrected, rather than a duplicate of that wire-order finding.

Overall direction remains sound; cancellation should take effect before fallible network reporting. Static delta and surrounding-code review, including an independent request-wiring pass. No builds, tests, benchmarks or interoperability checks run.

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Reviewed commit: 9d48319

P2 — Keep renewal handover bounded by the replacement's expiry (rs/moq-net/src/auth.rs:2583–2585, 2034–2046). Gate::verify now uses renewal handover, but Held::poll_end suppresses the old expiry for any accepted replacement without checking or waking at that replacement's expiry. If a namespace write is blocked on credit while A expires and granted B also expires before its verdict is admitted, the guard remains pending with no live grant; the stale write can complete when credit returns before admission detects B's expiry. Validate that the replacement is live and arm a wake for its deadline. Extend the handover test to delay admission beyond both expiries.

The retained binding and explicit cancellation flags otherwise make the ownership boundary clearer; the prior namespace-drain fix remains intact. Verification: static control-flow review only; no tests run.

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✅ No new issues found.

Reviewed changes

Incremental pass over 0f9f8538f → 9d4831992b: one PR-authored fix plus two merges of main (one hand-resolved). I traced the new Gate::verify renewal path against Held::poll_end, the retained-join adaptation to main's #7306, and the fin_cancels plumbing, and found no new actionable issues. All prior review feedback (including the resolved clippy/observer thread) is addressed.

• Made a bound gate verify a replacement token as its grant's renewal: Gate::verify now delegates to RequestGrant::verify_renewal once a token bound the gate, so a granted replacement suppresses the old grant's expiry/drop instead of ending discovery before the serve loop applies it. verify_renewal takes the caller's hold, keeping the namespace loop's stream credit (a_bound_gate_hands_over_to_a_granted_replacement).
• Reworked the retained join to follow a token an update named: Retain holds the subscription's RequestBinding and the gate it was held to, replacing main's grant field, so a join kept past a clean track end ends when that token is revoked (a_kept_join_ends_with_a_token_an_update_named).
• Adopted main's fin_cancels flag on poll_withdrawn / until_withdrawn / admit_request (false for TRACK_STATUS, fin_cancels(version) for FETCH, SUBSCRIBE_NAMESPACE, and the PUBLISH token wait), behavior-preserving for the PR's own waits.
• Merged main twice (MoQ Epoch removal, #7306 retained join, #7439/#7296 fin_cancels, #7284, plus CI/config); the second merge touches no moq-net source.
• Built the relay lease test's cluster through spawn_cluster now that Cluster::new returns its driver.

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Cover the TRACKSTATUS token in the encoder round-trip test.

164-164: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Cover the TRACK_STATUS token in the encoder round-trip test.

The TRACK_STATUS round-trip tests set authorization_token: None and never assert on the token. A change that drops the token in TrackStatus::encode_msg would still pass these tests. Encoding a Some token and asserting that it decodes back closes that gap.

Suggested test change

 		let msg = TrackStatus {
-			authorization_token: None,
+			authorization_token: Some(crate::ietf::token::RequestToken(crate::setup::Token {
+				kind: 0,
+				value: b"secret".to_vec(),
+			})),
 			request_id: RequestId(1),
 			track_namespace: Path::from_static("test/ns"),
 			track_name: "video".into(),
 			properties_wanted: true,
 		};
@@
 		assert_eq!(decoded.track_name, "video");
+		assert_eq!(decoded.authorization_token.map(|t| t.0.value), Some(b"secret".to_vec()));

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Review comment at @rs/moq-net/src/ietf/track.rs at line 164:
Update the TRACK_STATUS round-trip test for TrackStatus to encode a message with
a Some authorization_token and assert that the decoded token value matches the
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Reviewed commit: 1c8c82f

The earlier renewal-handover expiry finding remains: Held::poll_end can keep a blocked request alive after both old and accepted replacement grants expire because it arms no replacement deadline until renew() runs. No additional actionable issue found in the sampled admission redesign.

The explicit admission model is a reasonable direction, provided the handover deadline is enforced. Static GitHub inspection only; I did not run tests.

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Incremental pass over 9d4831992b → 1c8c82f965 (iteration 7, the maintainer-directed simplification). I traced the removed RequestBinding paths, the new admission rules across all three server-side request types, and the announce slot/lifetime accounting; two independent review passes (announce lifecycle accounting, and grant lifetime after the binding removal) also came back clean.

• Fixed each request's admission: a request is admitted by the session or by a token and never changes, so an update naming a token on a session-admitted SUBSCRIBE, SUBSCRIBE_NAMESPACE, or PUBLISH_NAMESPACE is refused. Removed RequestBinding, RequestGrant::guard_named/poll_named_ended, and the first-token paths; each token-admitted request keeps the Option<RequestGrant> it was admitted with and renews it in place (Gate::verify still routes a bound gate through RequestGrant::verify_renewal_holding, holding the caller's slot).
• Refused a tokenless PUBLISH_NAMESPACE outside the session limit with UNAUTHORIZED before attaching, and ended a session-admitted announce once the limit stops covering it, through the same path a lapsed token takes; the publisher re-announces. NAMESPACE entries answering a SUBSCRIBE_NAMESPACE keep detach-and-reattach.
• Made moq_net::auth::RequestKind public and #[non_exhaustive], and added auth::Request::kind()/path(), naming the request that first named the token. Gate::kind now reports a subscribe-direction gate's token as PublishNamespace rather than Publish.
• Updated doc/concept/standard.md and drafts/draft-lcurley-moq-auth.md to state that a request's admission never changes, and dropped quest/m1/auth-expiry-reset.md's link to the now-finished ietf-token-auth quest.

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Reviewed commit: 3be57ca

Do not revive a grant extended after it expired (rs/moq-net/src/auth.rs:2085–2090). If a request is not polled at grant A's deadline and Issued::update is called after A expires, this consumes the extension first and replaces the expired deadline with a future one. The same request remains authorized, so expiry depends on polling order. Record enough timing to distinguish an extension issued before expiry from a post-expiry update, and test both while the request is unpolled.

The earlier replacement-token handover expiry finding remains open. Handling timely extensions before the timer is a useful direction, but must preserve the expiry boundary. Static GitHub review only; I did not run tests.

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✅ No new issues found.

Reviewed changes

Incremental pass over 1c8c82f965 → 3be57ca3a1 (iteration 8): one Held::poll_end fix plus a conflict-free merge of main. I re-examined the one open question against the actual serve paths and found no new actionable issues. Prior Pullfrog feedback is fully addressed and no review threads remain open.

• Reordered Held::poll_end (auth.rs:2066) to read a pending reply on the current verdict before checking the armed deadline, so an extension the acceptor sent before the old expiry keeps the request even when polled only after it; a refused or dropped replacement still yields to an already-passed expiry, reported as Expired. The handover/deadline control flow is otherwise unchanged. an_extension_read_after_the_old_expiry_keeps_the_request covers it.
• Merged main (no moq-net source change).

I also re-checked the renewal-handover expiry concern raised previously by another reviewer against this head. It is not reachable: the same synchronous poll that observes a granted replacement immediately calls renew/admit, with no peer-controlled await in between, so the granted replacement is always applied before its own expiry can pass, and every candidate write runs after the apply. No fix is warranted.

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