specification: API Commons Rate Limits
specificationVersion: '0.1'
schema: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/interface-research/main/schema/api-commons.yml#/$defs/RateLimits
generated: '2026-09-07'
method: searched
source: >-
  Web search across DCSA public material for a DISS API reference or throttling
  policy, plus direct probes of www.dcsa.mil (all HTTP 403).
provider: Defense Information System for Security
providerId: defense-information-system-for-security
created: '2026-05-22'
modified: '2026-09-07'
tags:
  - Federal Government
  - Defense
  - Department of Defense
  - DCSA
  - Personnel Security
  - Suitability
  - Credentialing
  - Security Clearance
  - System of Record
description: >-
  No published rate limits. DISS exposes no public API, so there is no documented
  quota, window, burst allowance, throttling status code or rate-limit response
  header to record.
limit_count: 0
limits: []
headers: {}
responseCodes: {}
recoveryStrategies: []
notes:
  - >-
    REPLACES A FABRICATED SCAFFOLD. The prior version of this file declared
    free-tier (10/min, burst 20) and pro-tier (120/min, burst 240) envelopes,
    an X-RateLimit-* header set and a 429/503 code map, all against the invented
    host https://defense-information-system-for-security.example/api. DCSA
    publishes none of it; the scaffold values have been removed.
  - >-
    An honest zero. Direct verification against dcsa.mil was not possible on
    2026-09-07 — the Akamai edge returns HTTP 403 to every automated request —
    so this records the absence of any published limit, not a fetched policy page.
references:
  - name: DCSA — Defense Information System for Security (DISS)
    url: https://www.dcsa.mil/Systems-Applications/Defense-Information-System-for-Security-DISS/
    status: 403