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Basic explanation

What this does: Corrects the book's explanation of replay protection: unused nonces can be accepted out of order within a bounded window, and set bits track skipped nonces that remain unused.

Value: Developers no longer get contradictory guidance about submitting transitions in parallel.

Risks: Low; this changes two documentation files with no behavior delta.

Issue being fixed or feature implemented

The validation-pipeline chapter incorrectly requires every nonce to be strictly greater than the last used value. Current DPP and Drive code support unused earlier values, as the identity and document chapters already explain.

What was done?

Replaced that requirement in book/src/state-transitions/validation-pipeline.md with the unused-nonce and bounded-window rules, and linked to “Identity Nonces”. Corrected the linked section in book/src/data-model/identities.md: set bits mark skipped, still-unused nonces; accepting one clears its bit, and an already-used nonce is refused. The introductory phrase, example and validator sketch now agree. The wording makes no exact window-boundary promise. Nonce validation and cache behavior are outside this documentation change.

How Has This Been Tested?

Checked the explanation against validate_identity_nonce_update, its identity-update and document-batch callers, and both Drive nonce merge paths at upstream 3118b76e2cbe6498ede7e670a92cc6517d00fd7c. Verified the relative link target and heading anchor, and ran git diff --check. Independent peer review covered the exact diff. No runtime tests or local builds were run: docs-only, no behavior delta; the book preview is checked in CI.

Breaking Changes

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Documentation
  • Clarified that nonces must be unused for the identity or identity-contract pair and within a bounded window.
  • Clarified that valid nonces may be accepted out of order.

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Walkthrough

The Stage 5 documentation replaces the strictly increasing nonce requirement with an unused nonce within a bounded window. It also states that nonces may be accepted out of order.

Changes

Nonce validation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Stage 5 nonce rules book/src/state-transitions/validation-pipeline.md	Stage 5 now describes unused nonces within a bounded window and allows out-of-order acceptance.

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Estimated code review effort: 1 (Trivial) | ~3 minutes

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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 377de

The Stage 5 rule is accurate, but its new link points to an explanation that reverses how the nonce bits work. This is a localized documentation correction, so merge risk is low.

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Final review — Phase 1 only (trivial change)

Verified the documentation-only diff at head 377de75 against the nonce validation implementation and existing Identity Nonces documentation. The revised wording correctly describes unused, bounded-window nonces and out-of-order acceptance, and the relative link targets the correct heading; no actionable findings were supplied or identified. The supplied CI snapshot shows the book preview succeeded, runtime suites were skipped, and PR Hygiene remains pending.

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Review comments at @book/src/state-transitions/validation-pipeline.md:
- Line 160: Correct the Identity Nonces section’s bitfield description to say
that set bits mark old missing revisions, not already-seen nonces; clarify that
a past nonce may be accepted when its corresponding bit is set. Leave the Stage
5 link unchanged.

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Verified the documentation-only diff at head 13a6be8 against DPP validation, both Drive nonce merge implementations, and the identity-update and batch callers. The corrected missing-bit explanation, out-of-order example, and relative link are accurate; no in-scope issues were found. The supplied CI snapshot shows the book preview passed, with one browser test job and PR Hygiene still pending; no local builds or tests were run.

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Out-of-scope follow-up suggestions (1)

These are valid observations, but they are outside this PR's scope and should be handled in separate issues or author/maintainer-requested PRs rather than blocking this review.

• Nonce window boundary differs between DPP validation and Drive merge for past nonces — At the exact head, validate_identity_nonce_update in packages/rs-dpp/src/identity/identity_nonce.rs rejects past gaps greater than 24, whereas both Drive merge implementations reject gaps greater than or equal to 24. A set missing bit at distance 24 therefore passes the DPP predicate but is rejected by the merge predicate. This state is reachable: accepting nonce 2 and then 25 leaves nonce 1 marked missing at distance 24. The mismatch predates this documentation-only PR, whose changed prose does not promise an exact boundary.
  • Follow-up: Track a separate consensus-versioned follow-up to establish the intended past-window boundary and align validation and merging, with regression coverage for a missing nonce exactly 24 below the tip.

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