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@@ -45,9 +45,9 @@ that cannot safely run in user space.**
 | D4 | The manager claims + delegates on `hello`; `usb-xhci-bus` is the first driver converted | **done** — caught an IOMMU regression I introduced; see below |
 | D5 | The other four claimants converted: `pci-bus`, `ps2-bus`, `virtio-gpu`, `acpi` | **partial** — `pci-bus` done; the other three need decisions, see below |
 | D6 | `device_claim` refuses a device the caller was not handed; the hole is closed | not started |
-| D7 | Zero-resource devices stop being kernel objects — inventory moves to the manager | not started |
-| D8 | **`maximum_children_per_parent` deleted** — the authorisation it stood in for exists | not started |
-| D9 | The device table becomes dynamic; **`maximum_devices` deleted**; per-holder quota declared | not started |
+| D7 | Zero-resource devices stop being kernel objects — inventory moves to the manager | **blocked** — nothing else mints their ids; see question 8 |
+| D8 | **`maximum_children_per_parent` deleted** — the authorisation it stood in for exists | **blocked on D6**, and now ordered after D9 |
+| D9 | The device table becomes dynamic; **`maximum_devices` deleted**; per-holder quota declared | not started — **runs before D8** |
 
 Ordering is load-bearing. D1–D2 build and prove the mechanism with nothing depending on
 it. D4–D5 move each claimant across one at a time, so the suite stays green throughout
@@ -104,8 +104,34 @@ Delegation is delivered in `onHello`. That works for a driver that says hello, a
    but discarding a documented intent is a decision, not a mechanical step.
 
 Until these are answered, `device_claim` cannot be closed off at D6 for those three, so
-**D6 is blocked on question 6 and 7**. D7–D9 are not: they concern what the kernel
-stores and how the table is sized, and are independent of which drivers have converted.
+**D6 is blocked on questions 6 and 7**.
+
+8. **Removing zero-resource devices from the kernel needs someone else to mint their
+   ids, and nothing says who.** A USB interface is registered with
+   `resource_count = 0`, and the id `device_register` returns is load-bearing in three
+   places: it is the `child_added` packet's target, it is the class driver's `argv[1]`,
+   and it is the `device_token` of the **usb-transfer wire protocol** — so the id space
+   is visible on the wire, not merely internal. usb-xhci-bus's own comment records the
+   fourth constraint: the kernel's idempotency is what makes "the same port and
+   interface always map back to the same device id" across a bus restart, which is what
+   stops a respawned bus spawning duplicate class drivers.
+
+   So the mover has to answer: who mints the id, how it stays stable across a *bus*
+   restart, how it stays stable across a *manager* restart (open question 3 territory),
+   and whether the wire protocol's `device_token` changes meaning. That is a design
+   step, not a mechanical one.
+
+**D8 is reordered to run after D9**, which is a correction to the original sequencing.
+D8's justification was "the authorisation it stood in for exists" — but with D6 blocked
+it does not, so deleting the shared per-parent cap now would reopen the exhaustion hole
+it was written for. D9's **per-holder quota** closes that hole independently of
+authorisation, and does it better: a rogue exhausts its own allowance rather than the
+table everyone shares. Once the quota exists, the per-parent cap is redundant whether or
+not D6 has landed.
+
+D9 also no longer depends on D7. Its original rationale was that zero-resource children
+are the case that sidesteps containment — true, but a per-holder quota bounds them just
+as well as anything else, because it counts entries per holder rather than per parent.
 
 ### Settled, so the run does not re-litigate them