w3c-social/social-web-protocols

Backoff strategies

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Add a note about not hammering servers when doing discovery and things.

This may be spun out. @BigBlueHat is helping.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exponential_backoff is the most common option (or variations).

Also, these status codes seem best coupled with the Retry-After header, etc.

429
and
503

More research (and/or 🐱's to come)