diff --git a/archreview/plans/R3-03-restart-resubscribe-watchdog-plan.md b/archreview/plans/R3-03-restart-resubscribe-watchdog-plan.md
index 4a9966cb..c74e839d 100644
--- a/archreview/plans/R3-03-restart-resubscribe-watchdog-plan.md
+++ b/archreview/plans/R3-03-restart-resubscribe-watchdog-plan.md
@@ -487,3 +487,20 @@ the reciprocal falsification-partner xmldoc on the existing
 anticipated, each of its trip cycles now costs a full `FastTimeout` (250 ms) instead of one 50 ms
 tick, and its `AwaitCondition(InitializeCount >= 2, 5 s)` still has ample headroom. No budget change
 was needed.
+
+### T2 — desired-subscription payload authority
+
+Behaviour-preserving refactor, so there is no red observation to record by design — the gate is that
+**no test moves**. `--filter "FullyQualifiedName~DriverHostActor"` → **114/114 passed**, unchanged
+from the base commit.
+
+⚠️ One run of that filter reported `DriverHostActorNativeAlarmAckRoutingTests.RouteNativeAlarmAck_on_non_primary_is_dropped`
+failing on an `AwaitAssert`. Re-run in isolation: **3/3 passed**; re-run of the whole 114-test filter:
+**114/114 passed**. Treated as the known #500 flake set for this assembly (~13 %/run), not a
+regression — it touches none of the code this task edits (the alarm-ack Primary gate is a different
+method entirely).
+
+Deviation from the plan's literal step text (cosmetic, recorded for the reviewer): the plan's Finding-1
+step 1 says `_desiredByDriver` *replaces* `_lastComposition` at `:347-349` while T3 step 2 says T3
+deletes `_lastComposition`. Keeping T2 compilable means the two fields coexist for one commit;
+`_lastComposition` and its assignment are deleted in T3 as T3's own step text specifies.
diff --git a/archreview/plans/R3-03-restart-resubscribe-watchdog-plan.md.tasks.json b/archreview/plans/R3-03-restart-resubscribe-watchdog-plan.md.tasks.json
index 2464790a..582bcf35 100644
--- a/archreview/plans/R3-03-restart-resubscribe-watchdog-plan.md.tasks.json
+++ b/archreview/plans/R3-03-restart-resubscribe-watchdog-plan.md.tasks.json
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
     {
       "id": "T2",
       "subject": "Desired-subscription payload authority: _desiredByDriver + SendDesiredSubscriptions (behaviour-preserving refactor)",
-      "status": "pending",
+      "status": "done",
       "blockedBy": []
     },
     {
diff --git a/src/Server/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Runtime/Drivers/DriverHostActor.cs b/src/Server/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Runtime/Drivers/DriverHostActor.cs
index e95ca092..ff212655 100644
--- a/src/Server/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Runtime/Drivers/DriverHostActor.cs
+++ b/src/Server/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Runtime/Drivers/DriverHostActor.cs
@@ -348,6 +348,22 @@ public sealed class DriverHostActor : ReceiveActor, IWithTimers, IWithUnboundedS
     /// <see cref="PushDesiredSubscriptions"/>). Null until the first apply.</summary>
     private AddressSpaceComposition? _lastComposition;
 
+    /// <summary>One driver child's desired subscription payload — exactly the
+    /// <see cref="DriverInstanceActor.SetDesiredSubscriptions"/> the apply's bulk push sent it.</summary>
+    /// <param name="ValueRefs">The non-alarm raw tags' RawPaths this driver should keep subscribed.</param>
+    /// <param name="AlarmRefs">The alarm-bearing raw tags' RawPaths that un-gate this driver's
+    /// <see cref="IAlarmSource"/> feed.</param>
+    private readonly record struct DesiredSubscriptionSet(
+        IReadOnlyList<string> ValueRefs,
+        IReadOnlyList<string> AlarmRefs);
+
+    /// <summary>Per-driver desired subscription sets from the most-recent apply. THE authority: the bulk
+    /// push, <see cref="SpawnChild"/> and the supervision-reprovision handler all send from here, so a
+    /// child obtained by ANY route carries the same set. Cleared and repopulated whole on every apply,
+    /// alongside the routing maps, so renames/removals can never leave a stale entry. Empty until the
+    /// first apply — a child spawned before any apply is handed nothing, which is what it should have.</summary>
+    private readonly Dictionary<string, DesiredSubscriptionSet> _desiredByDriver = new(StringComparer.Ordinal);
+
     /// <summary>
     ///     Cached local <see cref="RedundancyRole"/> from the latest <see cref="RedundancyStateChanged"/>
     ///     snapshot (null = unknown until the first snapshot arrives, or no local node match). The Primary
@@ -2652,23 +2668,25 @@ public sealed class DriverHostActor : ReceiveActor, IWithTimers, IWithUnboundedS
             }
         }
 
-        // One authored-only push (value refs + alarm refs from the maps built above), shared by the bulk loop AND
-        // the dropped-driver fallback so the two CANNOT drift: the fallback's correctness depends on sending the
-        // SAME payload the bulk loop would have, so it's a shared helper (structural), not a comment-maintained
-        // invariant. An EMPTY set is valid — the child's Connected handler routes it to Unsubscribe (dropping a
-        // stale handle) rather than a spurious subscribe. Returns the value-ref count for the bulk-loop log total.
-        int SendAuthoredOnly(IActorRef actor, string driverId)
+        // Cache the per-driver payload as THE authority, in the same clear-and-repopulate pass as the routing
+        // maps above so a rename/removal can never leave a stale entry behind. Keyed over the UNION of the two
+        // ref maps AND the running children: a child with no authored tags must get an explicit EMPTY set (which
+        // it routes to Unsubscribe), not be absent from the authority — absence and empty must not differ here.
+        _desiredByDriver.Clear();
+        foreach (var driverId in refsByDriver.Keys
+                     .Concat(alarmRefsByDriver.Keys)
+                     .Concat(_children.Keys)
+                     .Distinct(StringComparer.Ordinal))
         {
-            var refs = refsByDriver.TryGetValue(driverId, out var r) ? r : Array.Empty<string>();
-            var alarmRefs = alarmRefsByDriver.TryGetValue(driverId, out var ar) ? ar : Array.Empty<string>();
-            actor.Tell(new DriverInstanceActor.SetDesiredSubscriptions(refs, SubscriptionPublishingInterval, alarmRefs));
-            return refs.Count;
+            _desiredByDriver[driverId] = new DesiredSubscriptionSet(
+                refsByDriver.TryGetValue(driverId, out var r) ? r : Array.Empty<string>(),
+                alarmRefsByDriver.TryGetValue(driverId, out var ar) ? ar : Array.Empty<string>());
         }
 
         var total = 0;
         foreach (var (driverId, entry) in _children)
         {
-            total += SendAuthoredOnly(entry.Actor, driverId);
+            total += SendDesiredSubscriptions(entry.Actor, driverId);
         }
 
         if (total > 0)
@@ -2710,6 +2728,34 @@ public sealed class DriverHostActor : ReceiveActor, IWithTimers, IWithUnboundedS
 
     }
 
+    /// <summary>
+    ///     Send <paramref name="driverId"/>'s desired subscription payload to <paramref name="actor"/>.
+    /// </summary>
+    /// <remarks>
+    ///     The ONE place a <see cref="DriverInstanceActor.SetDesiredSubscriptions"/> is built, so the apply's
+    ///     bulk push, a respawn (<see cref="SpawnChild"/>) and a supervision reprovision
+    ///     (<c>HandleReprovisionRequested</c>) cannot drift. That is structural rather than
+    ///     comment-maintained on purpose: a second sender that assembled its own payload is exactly how
+    ///     03/S16 happened — the restart path got a child without the set that makes a child useful.
+    ///     <para>
+    ///         An EMPTY set is valid and MEANINGFUL — the child routes it to <c>Unsubscribe</c> (dropping a
+    ///         stale handle) rather than to a spurious subscribe — so a driver missing from
+    ///         <see cref="_desiredByDriver"/> is sent an empty set, never skipped.
+    ///     </para>
+    /// </remarks>
+    /// <param name="actor">The driver child to hand the set to.</param>
+    /// <param name="driverId">The driver instance whose set to send.</param>
+    /// <returns>The value-ref count, for the bulk loop's log total.</returns>
+    private int SendDesiredSubscriptions(IActorRef actor, string driverId)
+    {
+        var set = _desiredByDriver.TryGetValue(driverId, out var s)
+            ? s
+            : new DesiredSubscriptionSet(Array.Empty<string>(), Array.Empty<string>());
+        actor.Tell(new DriverInstanceActor.SetDesiredSubscriptions(
+            set.ValueRefs, SubscriptionPublishingInterval, set.AlarmRefs));
+        return set.ValueRefs.Count;
+    }
+
     private void SpawnChild(DriverInstanceSpec spec)
     {
         var stub = DriverInstanceActor.ShouldStub(spec.DriverType, _localRoles);