Policy for limitting rate of accepted connections

[coot]

And related abuse/DoS resistance:

• limiting connections or rate of connections per IP

[njd42]

This is a shared responsibility between deployment and the code base. Deployments (for stakepools) would need to have fire-walling that would address part of this issue.
A taxonomy of potential hazards would be an initial first step to ensure that right issues are solved in the right places.