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Implementing a few tweaks in line with conversation in https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/lwd-mixnet-proxy-light-wallet-grpc-over-the-nym-mixnet-and-what-three-days-of-measuring-it-found/57000/32

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  • New Features

    • Added stream establishment acknowledgements, optional establishment waiting, and recent peer activity tracking.
    • Added clearer errors when a recipient cannot be reached through the current network topology.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved stream reliability by tolerating recoverable lost frames.
    • Stream data-loss events and persistent stream failures are now reported clearly.
    • Improved bridge retry behavior and fatal disconnection reporting.
  • Documentation

    • Clarified stream establishment, failure handling, buffering limits, compatibility behavior, and tutorial usage.

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The SDK adds OpenAck stream establishment, topology routing errors, in-band stream data-loss reporting, persistent I/O failure handling, passive peer activity tracking, and improved IPR lost-frame and disconnect handling.

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Stream establishment and reliability

Layer / File(s) Summary
Stream protocol and contracts
common/nym-lp-data/src/packet/frame.rs, sdk/rust/nym-sdk/src/error.rs, sdk/rust/nym-sdk/src/mixnet/stream/mod.rs
The wire protocol accepts OpenAck. Stream channels carry result values. Error::UnroutableRecipient preserves topology errors.
Reorder-buffer loss signaling
sdk/rust/nym-sdk/src/mixnet/stream/mod.rs
The reorder buffer uses an 8 MiB byte limit and emits StreamFailure::DataLoss when it skips missing data. Tests cover overflow and late gap filling.
Stream establishment flow
sdk/rust/nym-sdk/src/mixnet/stream/mod.rs, sdk/rust/nym-sdk/src/mixnet/stream/mixnet_stream.rs, sdk/rust/nym-sdk/src/mixnet/native_client.rs
accept() sends OpenAck best-effort. Routers mark streams established. MixnetStream adds wait_established() and last_peer_activity(). open_stream validates recipient topology.
Stream I/O failure propagation
sdk/rust/nym-sdk/src/mixnet/stream/mixnet_stream.rs
recv, poll_read, and poll_write expose stream failures as I/O errors. Read failures persist across later operations.
IPR loss and disconnect handling
sdk/rust/nym-sdk/src/ipr_wrapper/ip_mix_stream.rs, smolmix/core/src/bridge.rs
IPR handling ignores lost frames but reports closed streams. The bridge paces transient retries and returns fatal errors directly.
Establishment specification and design
openspec/changes/add-stream-establishment-ack/*, sdk/rust/nym-sdk/src/mixnet/stream/ARCHITECTURE.md, documentation/docs/pages/developers/rust/stream/tutorial.mdx
Specifications, architecture documentation, and the tutorial describe OpenAck compatibility, timeout behavior, SURB usage, passive activity tracking, and reorder-buffer behavior.

Documentation version updates

Layer / File(s) Summary
Swizzle installation examples
documentation/docs/pages/developers/swizzle.mdx, documentation/docs/pages/developers/swizzle/zcash.mdx
The installation examples use swizzle version 1.21.6.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 60a3d

The stream reliability changes are not ready to merge because sustained outbound traffic may delay inbound processing indefinitely, while reorder buffering may exceed its promised per-stream memory cap.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant MixnetListener
  participant StreamRouter
  participant MixnetStream
  participant Peer
  MixnetListener->>StreamRouter: register inbound stream
  MixnetListener->>Peer: send best-effort OpenAck
  Peer->>StreamRouter: deliver OpenAck or Data
  StreamRouter->>MixnetStream: mark stream established
  MixnetStream->>MixnetStream: resolve wait_established
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In `@sdk/rust/nym-sdk/src/mixnet/stream/ARCHITECTURE.md`:
- Around line 116-122: Update the earlier wire-protocol section describing
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In `@openspec/changes/add-stream-establishment-ack/tasks.md`:
- Line 37: Complete the stream tutorial documentation task by adding usage of
the public wait_established(timeout) API and explicitly stating that reply_surbs
must be at least 1 to receive an acknowledgement; preserve the note that zero
reply SURBs may cause the wait to time out while the stream remains usable.

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- Around line 157-163: Update the event_loop receive-retry handling so
tokio::select! cancellation preserves the original one-second retry deadline
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result = async {
if pace_next_receive {
tokio::time::sleep(RECEIVE_RETRY_DELAY).await;
}
self.stream.handle_incoming().await
} => {
pace_next_receive = false;

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Preserve the retry deadline across tokio::select! cancellations.

After a transient receive error, this branch creates a new one-second sleep. If outgoing_rx is ready, tokio::select! drops the pending sleep. The next iteration then starts a new full delay. Sustained outbound traffic can repeatedly postpone inbound polling, with no one-second retry deadline.

Store an absolute retry deadline or a pinned sleep in event_loop state. Add a regression test with continuous outgoing packets after a transient receive error.

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requires inbound data; use None or a non-zero reply-SURB count, or remove the
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