diff --git a/design/20220118.certificate-issuance-exponential-backoff.md b/design/20220118.certificate-issuance-exponential-backoff.md
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--- a/design/20220118.certificate-issuance-exponential-backoff.md
+++ b/design/20220118.certificate-issuance-exponential-backoff.md
@@ -58,6 +58,8 @@ Currently failed issuances are retried once an hour without a backoff or time li
 
 ### Non-Goals
 
+- Introduce backoff period that is shorter than the current static 1 hour backoff period to allow for issuance of short lived certs to be retried as that is a separate concern from backing off exponentially and is complex enough to be worked on separately
+
 - Make the backoff period configurable as this would add a lot of extra complexity. For context Kubernetes pod crashloopbackoff period is _not_ configurable (although it is a very demanded feature [k/k#57291](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/57291))
 
 - Make it possible to reset the backoff period (However, it would be possible to force re-issuance to be retried immediately using `cmctl renew` and, if that succeeded, the backoff would be reset)