MoQT draft-13 Error Codes

MoQT draft-13 assigns 71 code points across 8 registries — Termination, SUBSCRIBE_ERROR, SUBSCRIBE_DONE, PUBLISH_ERROR, FETCH_ERROR, ANNOUNCE_ERROR, SUBSCRIBE_NAMESPACE_ERROR and Closing Subgroup Streams — plus 4 Object Status values, which are a separate family and are never counted with the rest. Of the 71, 71 are assignments and 0 are reserved.

Every row below was read out of draft-ietf-moq-transport-13 by the same extraction the moqtap Rust codec's conformance tests run against. Nothing here is transcribed by hand. The provenance section gives the hash of the document it came from.

What changed since draft-12

Added

• 0x0 INTERNAL_ERROR (SUBSCRIBE_NAMESPACE_ERROR)
• 0x1 UNAUTHORIZED (SUBSCRIBE_NAMESPACE_ERROR)
• 0x2 TIMEOUT (SUBSCRIBE_NAMESPACE_ERROR)
• 0x3 NOT_SUPPORTED (SUBSCRIBE_NAMESPACE_ERROR)
• 0x4 NAMESPACE_PREFIX_UNKNOWN (SUBSCRIBE_NAMESPACE_ERROR)
• 0x5 NAMESPACE_PREFIX_OVERLAP (SUBSCRIBE_NAMESPACE_ERROR)
• 0x10 MALFORMED_AUTH_TOKEN (SUBSCRIBE_NAMESPACE_ERROR)
• 0x12 EXPIRED_AUTH_TOKEN (SUBSCRIBE_NAMESPACE_ERROR)

Removed

• 0x0 INTERNAL_ERROR (SUBSCRIBE_ANNOUNCES_ERROR)
• 0x1 UNAUTHORIZED (SUBSCRIBE_ANNOUNCES_ERROR)
• 0x2 TIMEOUT (SUBSCRIBE_ANNOUNCES_ERROR)
• 0x3 NOT_SUPPORTED (SUBSCRIBE_ANNOUNCES_ERROR)
• 0x4 NAMESPACE_PREFIX_UNKNOWN (SUBSCRIBE_ANNOUNCES_ERROR)
• 0x5 NAMESPACE_PREFIX_OVERLAP (SUBSCRIBE_ANNOUNCES_ERROR)
• 0x10 MALFORMED_AUTH_TOKEN (SUBSCRIBE_ANNOUNCES_ERROR)
• 0x12 EXPIRED_AUTH_TOKEN (SUBSCRIBE_ANNOUNCES_ERROR)

draft-13 adds the SUBSCRIBE_NAMESPACE_ERROR registry. It drops the SUBSCRIBE_ANNOUNCES_ERROR registry that draft-12 had.

Termination

When terminating the Session, the application MAY use any error message and SHOULD use a relevant code, as defined below:

Code	Reason	Normalized name	Defined in
0x0	No Error	NO_ERROR	§3.4
0x1	Internal Error	INTERNAL_ERROR	§3.4
0x2	Unauthorized	UNAUTHORIZED	§3.4
0x3	Protocol Violation	PROTOCOL_VIOLATION	§3.4
0x4	Invalid Request ID	INVALID_REQUEST_ID	§3.4
0x5	Duplicate Track Alias	DUPLICATE_TRACK_ALIAS	§3.4
0x6	Key-Value Formatting Error	KEY_VALUE_FORMATTING_ERROR	§3.4
0x7	Too Many Requests	TOO_MANY_REQUESTS	§3.4
0x8	Invalid Path	INVALID_PATH	§3.4
0x9	Malformed Path	MALFORMED_PATH	§3.4
0x10	GOAWAY Timeout	GOAWAY_TIMEOUT	§3.4
0x11	Control Message Timeout	CONTROL_MESSAGE_TIMEOUT	§3.4
0x12	Data Stream Timeout	DATA_STREAM_TIMEOUT	§3.4
0x13	Auth Token Cache Overflow	AUTH_TOKEN_CACHE_OVERFLOW	§3.4
0x14	Duplicate Auth Token Alias	DUPLICATE_AUTH_TOKEN_ALIAS	§3.4
0x15	Version Negotiation Failed	VERSION_NEGOTIATION_FAILED	§3.4
0x16	Malformed Auth Token	MALFORMED_AUTH_TOKEN	§3.4
0x17	Unknown Auth Token Alias	UNKNOWN_AUTH_TOKEN_ALIAS	§3.4
0x18	Expired Auth Token	EXPIRED_AUTH_TOKEN	§3.4

19 code points from table-1 of draft-13 (§3.4. Termination).

SUBSCRIBE_ERROR

The application SHOULD use a relevant error code in SUBSCRIBE_ERROR, as defined below:

Code	Reason	Normalized name	Defined in
0x0	Internal Error	INTERNAL_ERROR	§8.9
0x1	Unauthorized	UNAUTHORIZED	§8.9
0x2	Timeout	TIMEOUT	§8.9
0x3	Not Supported	NOT_SUPPORTED	§8.9
0x4	Track Does Not Exist	TRACK_DOES_NOT_EXIST	§8.9
0x5	Invalid Range	INVALID_RANGE	§8.9
0x10	Malformed Auth Token	MALFORMED_AUTH_TOKEN	§8.9
0x12	Expired Auth Token	EXPIRED_AUTH_TOKEN	§8.9

8 code points from table-4 of draft-13 (§8.9. SUBSCRIBE_ERROR).

SUBSCRIBE_DONE

The application SHOULD use a relevant status code in SUBSCRIBE_DONE, as defined below:

Code	Reason	Normalized name	Defined in
0x0	Internal Error	INTERNAL_ERROR	§8.12
0x1	Unauthorized	UNAUTHORIZED	§8.12
0x2	Track Ended	TRACK_ENDED	§8.12
0x3	Subscription Ended	SUBSCRIPTION_ENDED	§8.12
0x4	Going Away	GOING_AWAY	§8.12
0x5	Expired	EXPIRED	§8.12
0x6	Too Far Behind	TOO_FAR_BEHIND	§8.12
0x7	Malformed Track	MALFORMED_TRACK	§8.12

8 code points from table-5 of draft-13 (§8.12. SUBSCRIBE_DONE).

PUBLISH_ERROR

The application SHOULD use a relevant error code in PUBLISH_ERROR, as defined below:

Code	Reason	Normalized name	Defined in
0x0	Internal Error	INTERNAL_ERROR	§8.15
0x1	Unauthorized	UNAUTHORIZED	§8.15
0x2	Timeout	TIMEOUT	§8.15
0x3	Not Supported	NOT_SUPPORTED	§8.15
0x4	Uninterested	UNINTERESTED	§8.15

5 code points from table-6 of draft-13 (§8.15. PUBLISH_ERROR).

FETCH_ERROR

The application SHOULD use a relevant error code in FETCH_ERROR, as defined below:

Code	Reason	Normalized name	Defined in
0x0	Internal Error	INTERNAL_ERROR	§8.18
0x1	Unauthorized	UNAUTHORIZED	§8.18
0x2	Timeout	TIMEOUT	§8.18
0x3	Not Supported	NOT_SUPPORTED	§8.18
0x4	Track Does Not Exist	TRACK_DOES_NOT_EXIST	§8.18
0x5	Invalid Range	INVALID_RANGE	§8.18
0x6	No Objects	NO_OBJECTS	§8.18
0x7	Invalid Joining Request ID	INVALID_JOINING_REQUEST_ID	§8.18
0x8	Unknown Status in Range	UNKNOWN_STATUS_IN_RANGE	§8.18
0x9	Malformed Track	MALFORMED_TRACK	§8.18
0x10	Malformed Auth Token	MALFORMED_AUTH_TOKEN	§8.18
0x12	Expired Auth Token	EXPIRED_AUTH_TOKEN	§8.18

12 code points from table-7 of draft-13 (§8.18. FETCH_ERROR).

ANNOUNCE_ERROR

The application SHOULD use a relevant error code in ANNOUNCE_ERROR, as defined below:

Code	Reason	Normalized name	Defined in
0x0	Internal Error	INTERNAL_ERROR	§8.25
0x1	Unauthorized	UNAUTHORIZED	§8.25
0x2	Timeout	TIMEOUT	§8.25
0x3	Not Supported	NOT_SUPPORTED	§8.25
0x4	Uninterested	UNINTERESTED	§8.25
0x10	Malformed Auth Token	MALFORMED_AUTH_TOKEN	§8.25
0x12	Expired Auth Token	EXPIRED_AUTH_TOKEN	§8.25

7 code points from table-8 of draft-13 (§8.25. ANNOUNCE_ERROR).

SUBSCRIBE_NAMESPACE_ERROR

The application SHOULD use a relevant error code in SUBSCRIBE_NAMESPACE_ERROR, as defined below:

Code	Reason	Normalized name	Defined in
0x0	Internal Error	INTERNAL_ERROR	§8.30
0x1	Unauthorized	UNAUTHORIZED	§8.30
0x2	Timeout	TIMEOUT	§8.30
0x3	Not Supported	NOT_SUPPORTED	§8.30
0x4	Namespace Prefix Unknown	NAMESPACE_PREFIX_UNKNOWN	§8.30
0x5	Namespace Prefix Overlap	NAMESPACE_PREFIX_OVERLAP	§8.30
0x10	Malformed Auth Token	MALFORMED_AUTH_TOKEN	§8.30
0x12	Expired Auth Token	EXPIRED_AUTH_TOKEN	§8.30

8 code points from table-9 of draft-13 (§8.30. SUBSCRIBE_NAMESPACE_ERROR).

Closing Subgroup Streams

The application SHOULD use a relevant error code in RESET_STREAM or RESET_STREAM_AT, as defined below:

Code	Reason	Normalized name	Defined in
0x0	Internal Error	INTERNAL_ERROR	§9.4.3
0x1	Cancelled	CANCELLED	§9.4.3
0x2	Delivery Timeout	DELIVERY_TIMEOUT	§9.4.3
0x3	Session Closed	SESSION_CLOSED	§9.4.3

4 code points from table-14 of draft-13 (§9.4.3. Closing Subgroup Streams).

Object Status

Object Status is a second family of code points and is counted on its own. It is the status a single Object carries, not the outcome of a request or a session, so its 4 values are never added to the 71 above. In draft-13 it has no IANA registry — the same code points are assigned as prose in the section that defines the field.

Code	Name	Description
0x0	NORMAL	—
0x1	OBJECT_DOES_NOT_EXIST	—
0x3	END_OF_GROUP	—
0x4	END_OF_TRACK	—

Payload rule: Any object with a status code other than zero MUST have an empty payload.

Where these numbers come from

The code points, names and registry membership come from crates/moqtap-codec/tools/registries/draft-13.json, a committed extraction of draft-ietf-moq-transport-13 produced by crates/moqtap-codec/tools/extract-registries.py. The moqtap Rust codec's conformance tests read that same file and compare it against the crate's enums in both directions, so a code point this page shows and the codec refuses is a test failure, not a documentation drift.

That extraction records source_sha256, the SHA-256 of the rendered draft as bytes on disk: da0bd7c99d37c20eeaa78dc41157902e1f70cf73854d7d02447cb2c35d01e538. The descriptions and section links on this page are read from spec-sources/draft-13.html in this site's repository, whose hash matches — the two inputs are provably the same document.

Read draft-13 section by section, or go to the draft-13 control message types.

Note

draft-13 prints these registries as a Code / Reason table with no symbolic name. The Reason column is reproduced verbatim; the name beside it is normalized from that Reason, not printed by the draft. Where draft-13 says more about a code it says it in prose after the table, and neither the extraction nor this page follows that prose — the spec section link is there for it.

Error codes in other drafts

moqtap covers drafts 07 through 20.

• draft-20 — 61 codes
• draft-19 — 64 codes
• draft-18 — 62 codes
• draft-17 — 59 codes
• draft-16 — 49 codes
• draft-15 — 47 codes
• draft-14 — 73 codes
• draft-13 — 71 codes
• draft-12 — 71 codes
• draft-11 — 65 codes
• draft-10 — 40 codes
• draft-09 — 40 codes
• draft-08 — 40 codes
• draft-07 — 21 codes

All MoQT error codes, draft by draft · Control message types