In many online games (CS:GO, DotA2, LoL and others), when you disconnect, you have a short period of time where you are allowed to reconnect without punishment.
The recently introduced system to prevent abuse of DayZ's logging system can be improved (as opposed to being removed) by allowing the player a grace period of ~ 3 - 5 minutes to reconnect to the identical server without any penalty in the event of a crash. In the event of a server interrupt, there simply is no penalty since a reconnection cannot be assured.