[DISPATCH-959] Rate limiting policy

• Type: Bug
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 1.0.1
• Fix Version/s: Backlog
• Component/s: Policy Engine, Routing Engine
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Charles E. Rolke
• Created: 06/Apr/18 21:14
• Updated: 18/Oct/18 17:48

Description

Router administrators would like rate-limiting policies to allow different classes of users. A network-rate limit similar to how home cable networks are provisioned for bandwidth is a classic model and is being considered as the first choice.

A message-per-second limit might be easier to enforce. But a single user message may have a large data section, or have a small data section but have huge message annotations. Thus a user might consume a lot of network bandwidth with only a few messages.

It is still unclear at what level the rate limiting should be applied. Choices are:

• Per vhost
• Per vhost connection
• Per vhost user