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> there, it does not take a slot.** The two sets are the same three call sites,
> which is what makes this verifiable rather than a judgement call at each new one.
+**Which of the two a request is, is the node's answer and not the client's.**
+`tr` is drawn by the client, so it is a claim: the node resolves it against its
+own record and serves the chunk as a leased transfer only when that record is a
+**granted** lease **of this connection**. A lease it holds but has not granted is
+refused with a code — a member reading while queued is the cap not applying — and
+an id it has no record of is treated as leaseless and bounded below, because that
+is also what a reconnect looks like from here, where the session's leases died
+with the old connection and the client is re-opening them. Read as a bare
+presence check, the field made every cap on this page decoration: any non-empty
+string skipped the ceiling, and the queue held only the clients that chose to
+wait.
+
**Why the exemption is expressed in concurrency and not in size or bytes**, which
is the durable part of this decision: