From ce6f0f3165bd3fddacd88de1b4eb992ca89658a1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Erik Johnston Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2025 14:39:40 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Note about resource consumption --- proposals/4186-simplified-sliding-sync.md | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/proposals/4186-simplified-sliding-sync.md b/proposals/4186-simplified-sliding-sync.md index 719b94054..b23b70d21 100644 --- a/proposals/4186-simplified-sliding-sync.md +++ b/proposals/4186-simplified-sliding-sync.md @@ -602,8 +602,9 @@ We can also add a flag to disable attempting to backfill over pagination (to mat Care must be taken, as with sync v2, to ensure that only the data that the user is authorized to see is returned in the response. -Servers SHOULD limit the amount of data that they store per-user to guard against resource exhaustion, e.g. limiting the -number of connections a device can have active. +Servers SHOULD limit the amount of data that they store per-user to guard against resource consumption, e.g. limiting +the number of connections a device can have active. This protects against malicious clients creating large numbers of +connections that get persisted to the database. # Unstable prefix