Commits the re-point edits left uncommitted in the working tree (5b62307's follow-through; alkcall review 005 verified these lines at that tree), updated to the post-review-005 state: - 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. What remains here is still alkhttp-side wiring only (review 003 Unit 2).
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# Open Questions
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Centralized tracker. Format follows the SDD process
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(`docs/sdd_process.md` §Open Questions Format). Ported alknet OQs that
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resolved before the extraction are recorded in the resolved section
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with their resolutions; new alkhttp OQs start at OQ-01.
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## Status legend
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`open` | `resolved` | `deferred(scope)` | `partially resolved`
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## Open
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### OQ-01: WS ↔ byte-stream adaptation semantics
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- **Origin**: [websocket.md](websocket.md), [ADR-067](decisions/067-websocket-carries-channels.md)
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- **Status**: resolved (POC `ws-byte-adapter`; validated end-to-end — see
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the task's Summary in `tasks/websocket/byte-adapter.md`)
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- **Priority**: high
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- **Resolution**: The adapter treats the WS message stream as a byte
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stream in both directions; the 8-byte chunk header is the only
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framing. Inbound: WS read task → bounded mpsc (64 slots; backpressure
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= send awaiting capacity, applying TCP-level backpressure to the
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socket) → `AsyncRead` drains; channel close = EOF. Outbound: a writer
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task parses 8-byte chunk headers out of the pending byte buffer (live-
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confirmed: a single response frame arrives as TWO chunks —
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`write_frame`'s prefix and body surface as separate mux payloads) and
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emits one WS message per chunk, splitting at a 1 MiB
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`WS_MESSAGE_CAP` (receiver's boundary is the chunk header, not the
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message). Flush is a no-op (writes queue; the writer task emits
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independently). Close: WS close → read EOF → REQ-CH-02 teardown;
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`shutdown` closes the write channel (mux pumps emit zero-length
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sentinels on sender drop). Client-side consequence: chunk ≠ frame —
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channel-0 consumers reassemble length-prefixed frames from the byte
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stream; and the dispatcher reads `operationId` from the request
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payload.
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- **Cross-references**: ADR-067, [websocket.md](websocket.md),
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tasks/websocket/byte-adapter.md
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### OQ-02: `/publish` body framing details
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- **Origin**: [ADR-068](decisions/068-gateway-publish-endpoint.md)
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- **Status**: resolved (implementation: gateway-publish task, 2026-08-28)
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- **Priority**: medium
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- **Resolution**: First line of the NDJSON body carries
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`{ "operation": "/{service}/{op}", "chunk": {...} }`; subsequent
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lines are chunk values only. Terminal errors are plain HTTP status +
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JSON body (NOT an NDJSON line) — consistent with every other gateway
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endpoint's error surface. A `?operation=` query parameter was
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considered and rejected: it duplicates the first-line field and adds
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a second way to name the op (two sources of truth) for no curl-ability
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gain. The first-line convention is the single naming point.
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Implemented in `src/gateway/routes.rs::publish_handler`.
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### OQ-03: `from_wss` reconnection semantics
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- **Origin**: [ADR-070](decisions/070-from-wss-consumer-adapter.md)
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- **Status**: open
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- **Priority**: medium
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- **Resolution**: (pending)
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- **Question**: On a dropped WSS connection, does `from_wss`
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auto-reconnect + re-discover (`services/list`) + reconcile imported
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registrations, or does v1 surface call failures (`INTERNAL`,
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retryable) and leave the policy to the assembly layer? The v1
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default (fail with retryable errors) is documented in ADR-070; the
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question is whether a built-in policy is ever warranted.
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### OQ-04: Browser client library ownership
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- **Origin**: [websocket.md](websocket.md)
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- **Status**: open
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- **Priority**: low
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- **Blocked on**: a concrete browser consumer (the alk UI) needing the
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JS/TS client for channels-over-WS. The framing contract is the
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alkcall BAST document (`chunk-header.bast.json`); the client library
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lives outside this crate. Deferred(scope: browser UI work).
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### OQ-05: Browser-opened data channels over WS — v1 cut
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- **Origin**: review-001 finding WS-03 (`docs/reviews/001-initial-implementation-review.md`),
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[ADR-067](decisions/067-websocket-carries-channels.md),
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[ADR-048](decisions/048-websocket-native-session-not-gateway.md)
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- **Status**: deferred(scope: v1 cut — no browser consumer yet; reopened
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when one lands)
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- **Priority**: medium
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- **Question**: ADR-067 §"Data channels for browsers" promises
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browser-opened data channels (open ops on channel 0 → chunk
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demultiplexing of channels 1..N), and ADR-048's bidirectionality
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promise leans on the same connection-local machinery. The v1
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implementation wires channel 0 only (`install_channel_zero` +
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`Dispatcher::run_loop_single_stream`, `src/websocket/upgrade.rs`);
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no `ChannelCore`/`register_openable`/`ChannelOperations` path exists
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for a browser to open a data channel (grep-verified, review-001).
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The design is decided (ADR-067: the browser opens data channels
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exactly as any channels consumer — nothing new to design); what is
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deferred is the *wiring*: passing the deployment's openable-ALPN
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registrations and `ChannelLifecyclePolicy` through the WS upgrade
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path, plus a browser-opened-channel end-to-end test.
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- **Resolution**: (pending — v1 cut recorded 2026-08-29 in ADR-067 and
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ADR-048; the recently landed WS robustness work — idle-read timeout,
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session caps/eviction, pump consolidation — is the foundation the
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deferred work builds on. **2026-09-03**: the alkcall mechanisms this
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wiring composes on landed — alkcall review 004 Units 1–3: the
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per-session fork as dispatch registry (alkcall ADR-047 §4 amendment
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#2), the opt-in connect-side serving loop
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(`Dispatcher::serve_single_stream`), and the `op/register` bootstrap
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op (alkcall ADR-022 amendment 2026-09-03). **2026-09-04**: alkcall
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review 005 remediated the landed mechanisms (serving-loop
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concurrency, `op/register` collision policy, spec round-trip
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completeness) and alkcall 0.3.0 shipped them; alkhttp now consumes
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0.3. What remains here is alkhttp-side wiring only — alkhttp review
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003 Unit 2.)
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- **Cross-references**: [ADR-067](decisions/067-websocket-carries-channels.md),
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[ADR-048](decisions/048-websocket-native-session-not-gateway.md),
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[websocket.md](websocket.md), tasks/websocket/review-001-ws-data-channel-decision.md,
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alkcall reviews 004–005 (`alkcall/docs/reviews/004-per-connection-dispatch-and-client-serving-review.md`,
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`alkcall/docs/reviews/005-serving-loop-concurrency-and-op-register-review.md`)
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## Resolved (ported)
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Resolutions inherited from the alknet architecture; recorded here for
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reference. Full rationale in the alknet mono-repo's open-questions.md
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and the cited ADRs.
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| OQ (alknet) | Title | Resolution | Where it lives now |
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|-------------|-------|------------|--------------------|
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| OQ-11 | Handler-level auth resolution observability | Resolved: resolved identity stored on `Connection` via `set_identity` | alkcall core; [http-server.md](http-server.md) §Auth |
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| OQ-13 | Operation path format | Resolved: `/{service}/{op}` is the operation path format (gateway bodies carry it; no direct-call surface) | [ADR-036](decisions/036-http-to-call-operation-mapping.md), [ADR-047](decisions/047-remove-direct-call-http-surface.md) |
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| OQ-17 | Call protocol client and adapter contract | Resolved: `OperationAdapter` async trait; `to_*` projections | alkcall ADR-022; [ADR-017](decisions/017-call-protocol-client-and-adapter-contract.md) |
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| 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](decisions/023-operation-error-schemas.md) |
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| OQ-37 | X.509 outgoing-only / three peer roles | Resolved: browsers are not peers | [ADR-034](decisions/034-outgoing-only-x509-and-three-peer-roles.md) |
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| OQ-39 | `to_openapi` published-spec versioning | Resolved: `info.version` semver tracks the gateway endpoint contract | [ADR-045](decisions/045-to-openapi-gateway-spec-versioning.md) |
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| OQ-40 | reqwest client config and connection pooling | Resolved: `ClientWithMiddleware` + retry + Retry-After middleware; rebuild-and-swap | [http-adapters.md](http-adapters.md) §HTTP client |
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| OQ-12 | TLS identity provisioning | Resolved (alknet): browsers require X.509; provisioning itself is an alknet concern | [ADR-027](decisions/027-tls-identity-redesign-acme-rawkey-decoupling.md); [ADR-069](decisions/069-webtransport-out-of-scope.md) |
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Not carried: OQ-38 (WebTransport standalone relay scope) — moot here;
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the relay is an alknet concern ([ADR-069](decisions/069-webtransport-out-of-scope.md)). |