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- ADR-048 reconciliation note gains the 2026-09-04 update: alkcall
  review 005 remediated the landed mechanisms (serving-loop
  concurrency G-01/G-02, op/register collision policy G-03, spec
  round-trip G-04, bootstrap-list alignment G-05) and alkcall 0.3.0
  shipped them; alkhttp now consumes 0.3. The ADR-022 collision
  sub-amendment binds here: a peer-announced op never shadows the
  serving side's own registrations — the WS session's op/register
  handler gates on the session fork.
- OQ-05 resolution gains the same dated update and extends the
  cross-references to alkcall reviews 004-005.

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Open Questions

Centralized tracker. Format follows the SDD process (docs/sdd_process.md §Open Questions Format). Ported alknet OQs that resolved before the extraction are recorded in the resolved section with their resolutions; new alkhttp OQs start at OQ-01.

Status legend

open | resolved | deferred(scope) | partially resolved

Open

OQ-01: WS ↔ byte-stream adaptation semantics

  • Origin: websocket.md, ADR-067
  • Status: resolved (POC ws-byte-adapter; validated end-to-end — see the task's Summary in tasks/websocket/byte-adapter.md)
  • Priority: high
  • Resolution: The adapter treats the WS message stream as a byte stream in both directions; the 8-byte chunk header is the only framing. Inbound: WS read task → bounded mpsc (64 slots; backpressure = send awaiting capacity, applying TCP-level backpressure to the socket) → AsyncRead drains; channel close = EOF. Outbound: a writer task parses 8-byte chunk headers out of the pending byte buffer (live- confirmed: a single response frame arrives as TWO chunks — write_frame's prefix and body surface as separate mux payloads) and emits one WS message per chunk, splitting at a 1 MiB WS_MESSAGE_CAP (receiver's boundary is the chunk header, not the message). Flush is a no-op (writes queue; the writer task emits independently). Close: WS close → read EOF → REQ-CH-02 teardown; shutdown closes the write channel (mux pumps emit zero-length sentinels on sender drop). Client-side consequence: chunk ≠ frame — channel-0 consumers reassemble length-prefixed frames from the byte stream; and the dispatcher reads operationId from the request payload.
  • Cross-references: ADR-067, websocket.md, tasks/websocket/byte-adapter.md

OQ-02: /publish body framing details

  • Origin: ADR-068
  • Status: resolved (implementation: gateway-publish task, 2026-08-28)
  • Priority: medium
  • Resolution: First line of the NDJSON body carries { "operation": "/{service}/{op}", "chunk": {...} }; subsequent lines are chunk values only. Terminal errors are plain HTTP status + JSON body (NOT an NDJSON line) — consistent with every other gateway endpoint's error surface. A ?operation= query parameter was considered and rejected: it duplicates the first-line field and adds a second way to name the op (two sources of truth) for no curl-ability gain. The first-line convention is the single naming point. Implemented in src/gateway/routes.rs::publish_handler.

OQ-03: from_wss reconnection semantics

  • Origin: ADR-070
  • Status: open
  • Priority: medium
  • Resolution: (pending)
  • Question: On a dropped WSS connection, does from_wss auto-reconnect + re-discover (services/list) + reconcile imported registrations, or does v1 surface call failures (INTERNAL, retryable) and leave the policy to the assembly layer? The v1 default (fail with retryable errors) is documented in ADR-070; the question is whether a built-in policy is ever warranted.

OQ-04: Browser client library ownership

  • Origin: websocket.md
  • Status: open
  • Priority: low
  • Blocked on: a concrete browser consumer (the alk UI) needing the JS/TS client for channels-over-WS. The framing contract is the alkcall BAST document (chunk-header.bast.json); the client library lives outside this crate. Deferred(scope: browser UI work).

OQ-05: Browser-opened data channels over WS — v1 cut

  • Origin: review-001 finding WS-03 (docs/reviews/001-initial-implementation-review.md), ADR-067, ADR-048
  • Status: deferred(scope: v1 cut — no browser consumer yet; reopened when one lands)
  • Priority: medium
  • Question: ADR-067 §"Data channels for browsers" promises browser-opened data channels (open ops on channel 0 → chunk demultiplexing of channels 1..N), and ADR-048's bidirectionality promise leans on the same connection-local machinery. The v1 implementation wires channel 0 only (install_channel_zero + Dispatcher::run_loop_single_stream, src/websocket/upgrade.rs); no ChannelCore/register_openable/ChannelOperations path exists for a browser to open a data channel (grep-verified, review-001). The design is decided (ADR-067: the browser opens data channels exactly as any channels consumer — nothing new to design); what is deferred is the wiring: passing the deployment's openable-ALPN registrations and ChannelLifecyclePolicy through the WS upgrade path, plus a browser-opened-channel end-to-end test.
  • Resolution: (pending — v1 cut recorded 2026-08-29 in ADR-067 and ADR-048; the recently landed WS robustness work — idle-read timeout, session caps/eviction, pump consolidation — is the foundation the deferred work builds on. 2026-09-03: the alkcall mechanisms this wiring composes on landed — alkcall review 004 Units 13: the per-session fork as dispatch registry (alkcall ADR-047 §4 amendment #2), the opt-in connect-side serving loop (Dispatcher::serve_single_stream), and the op/register bootstrap op (alkcall ADR-022 amendment 2026-09-03). 2026-09-04: alkcall review 005 remediated the landed mechanisms (serving-loop concurrency, op/register collision policy, spec round-trip completeness) and alkcall 0.3.0 shipped them; alkhttp now consumes 0.3. What remains here is alkhttp-side wiring only — alkhttp review 003 Unit 2.)
  • Cross-references: ADR-067, ADR-048, websocket.md, tasks/websocket/review-001-ws-data-channel-decision.md, alkcall reviews 004005 (alkcall/docs/reviews/004-per-connection-dispatch-and-client-serving-review.md, alkcall/docs/reviews/005-serving-loop-concurrency-and-op-register-review.md)

Resolved (ported)

Resolutions inherited from the alknet architecture; recorded here for reference. Full rationale in the alknet mono-repo's open-questions.md and the cited ADRs.

OQ (alknet) Title Resolution Where it lives now
OQ-11 Handler-level auth resolution observability Resolved: resolved identity stored on Connection via set_identity alkcall core; http-server.md §Auth
OQ-13 Operation path format Resolved: /{service}/{op} is the operation path format (gateway bodies carry it; no direct-call surface) ADR-036, ADR-047
OQ-17 Call protocol client and adapter contract Resolved: OperationAdapter async trait; to_* projections alkcall ADR-022; ADR-017
OQ-24 / OQ-26 Operation error schemas / AdapterError variants Resolved: protocol/operation codes distinct; HTTP_<status> prefix; AdapterError #[non_exhaustive] alkcall ADR-016; ADR-023
OQ-37 X.509 outgoing-only / three peer roles Resolved: browsers are not peers ADR-034
OQ-39 to_openapi published-spec versioning Resolved: info.version semver tracks the gateway endpoint contract ADR-045
OQ-40 reqwest client config and connection pooling Resolved: ClientWithMiddleware + retry + Retry-After middleware; rebuild-and-swap http-adapters.md §HTTP client
OQ-12 TLS identity provisioning Resolved (alknet): browsers require X.509; provisioning itself is an alknet concern ADR-027; ADR-069

Not carried: OQ-38 (WebTransport standalone relay scope) — moot here; the relay is an alknet concern (ADR-069).