Issue 191 and ADR 0167: a membership carries what its module receives, and who the mesh is #273

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status: located
status: resolved
opened: 2026-10-01
located-in: [mesh-controller examples/route-proxy/main.go (routesFrom requires a route's public `name` and treats `internal-name` only as an alias of it; the handler serves every routed name to any source), mesh-controller internal/broker/membership.go (a membership says nothing of what its module receives or who the mesh is)]
fixed-by:
fixed-by: mesh-controller PR 207 (the membership carries what a module receives and who the mesh is; the proxy follows it and serves internal names to the mesh only), mesh-catalog PR 211 (the proxy's bus account), mesh-controller PR 208 (the issue verb that delivers it), live 2026-10-02
amended-design: [03-DESIGN/01-to-be/08-connectivity.md, 03-DESIGN/01-to-be/25-the-bus-on-nats.md]
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only in its own log? The same silent skip covers a route with no usable port or an unknown scheme.
- What checks that what the controller composes and what the proxy serves stay the same shape? ADR
0138 changed one side and nothing failed on the other.
## Resolved (2026-10-02)
Built as [ADR 0167](../../02-DECISIONS/0167-a-membership-carries-what-its-module-receives-and-who-the-mesh-is.md)
decided, and live on both machines that run the proxy. Each logs that its routes now come from its
membership, and serves internal names to the four machines the mesh names. Checked by hand:
- the internal-only route answers through the proxy from the serving machine and from two other
machines of the mesh, over a certificate from the mesh's own authority that each verifies;
- the same name asked from an address outside the mesh is answered as a name never routed, over plain
HTTP, and refused in the TLS handshake; the list of served names it is shown leaves out every internal
name.
Two things the rollout found are their own records: the proxy's bus account could be issued only from
the controller's command line, until mesh-controller PR 208 added the `issue` verb, and the status line
counting every module as a bus user without a credential is
[issue 195](../195-every-assigned-module-is-counted-as-a-bus-user-without-a-credential/00-report.md).
The serving machine also lacked the certificate-trust module, so it could not verify the mesh's own
certificates until it was assigned there.