`handleInboundBidi` previously snapshotted the publisher list at the
TOP of the function (= bidi-arrival time) and used the snapshot for
the rest of the bidi's lifetime. A publisher registered between
bidi-open and the first inbound chunk would miss the dispatcher's
view, even though the publisher was already live in `activePublishers`
by the time we needed to dispatch.
Practical impact today: zero — both nests publishers (`audio/data`
and `catalog.json`) register from `MoqLiteNestsSpeaker.startBroadcasting`
before the relay's SUBSCRIBE bidi for either track lands. The
~few-ms gap is below the network round-trip floor.
But the contract is narrower if we read the list at first-byte time:
we then see every publisher that was registered up to the moment we
needed to make a routing decision. Closes the L5 row of the audit doc.
Move the publishers fetch from the function-top to inside the
`if (!dispatched)` block, after the control-type byte has been read.
On empty publisher list (the case we previously short-circuited at
function-top), we now FIN cleanly so the peer's wait resolves
instead of hanging on an idle bidi.
Audit doc: nestsClient/plans/2026-05-09-moq-lite-rfc-compliance.md (L5).
https://claude.ai/code/session_012TGfo99Ugz7fcCPv85a8Tq
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