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Gossipsub: Unsubscribe backoff #383

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21 changes: 13 additions & 8 deletions pubsub/gossipsub/gossipsub-v1.1.md
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| Lifecycle Stage | Maturity | Status | Latest Revision |
|-----------------|---------------------------|--------|-----------------|
| 2A | Candidate Recommendation | Active | r7, 2020-05-30 |
| 2A | Candidate Recommendation | Active | r8, 2021-12-14 |

Authors: [@vyzo]

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When a peer tries to regraft too early, the pruning peer may apply a behavioural penalty
for the action, and penalize the peer through P₇ (see [Peer Scoring](#peer-scoring) below).

When unsubscribing from a topic, the backoff period should be finished before subscribing to
the topic again, otherwise a healthy mesh will be difficult to reach.
A shorter backoff period can be used in case of an unsubscribe event, allowing faster resubscribing.

The recommended duration for the backoff period is 1 minute, while the recommended number of peers
to exchange is larger than `D_hi` so that the pruned peer can reliably form a full mesh.
In order to correctly synchronize the two peers, the pruning peer should include the backoff period
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The following parameters apply globally:

| Parameter | Type | Description | Reasonable Default |
|----------------|------------------|------------------------------------------------------------------------|--------------------|
| `PruneBackoff` | Duration | Time after pruning a mesh peer before we consider grafting them again. | `1 minute` |
| `FloodPublish` | Boolean | Whether to enable flood publishing | `true` |
| `GossipFactor` | Float [0.0, 1.0] | % of peers to send gossip to, if we have more than `D_lazy` available | `0.25` |
| `D_score` | Integer | Number of peers to retain by score when pruning because of oversubscription | 4 or 5 for a `D` of 6. |
| `D_out` | Integer | Number of outbound connections to keep in the mesh. Must be less than `D_lo` and at most `D/2` | 2 for a `D` of 6 |
| Parameter | Type | Description | Reasonable Default |
|----------------------|------------------|------------------------------------------------------------------------|--------------------|
| `PruneBackoff` | Duration | Time after pruning a mesh peer before we consider grafting them again. | `1 minute` |
| `UnsubscribeBackoff` | Duration | Backoff to use when unsuscribing from a topic. Should not resubscribe to this topic before it expired. | `10 seconds` |
| `FloodPublish` | Boolean | Whether to enable flood publishing | `true` |
| `GossipFactor` | Float [0.0, 1.0] | % of peers to send gossip to, if we have more than `D_lazy` available | `0.25` |
| `D_score` | Integer | Number of peers to retain by score when pruning because of oversubscription | 4 or 5 for a `D` of 6. |
| `D_out` | Integer | Number of outbound connections to keep in the mesh. Must be less than `D_lo` and at most `D/2` | 2 for a `D` of 6 |

The remaining parameters apply to [Peer Scoring](#peer-scoring). Because many parameters are
inter-related and may be application-specific, reasonable defaults are not shown here. See
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