On Feb 26, 2013, at 19:29 50, Jay Ashworth wrote: > Probably, but there's a codicil, due originally to I no longer remember > whom: > > "Do not be *too* liberal in what you accept, lest you encourage people > to misbehave and push the costs thereof onto you." > > If there's a system, people will game it. And Postel's Law was writen > when there were effectively no Bad Actors on the Net.
There's some additional context to it as well: arguably, the situation Postel was attempting to address was fallout from vague or ambiguous standards. It is not uncommon with such to have two or more "compliant" implementations of the same standard that nonetheless cannot interoperate due to different interpretations of said standard by the implementers. That's not the situation we have here. The RIFF Wav standard is very clear here, it's the sample file that is simply incorrect --i.e. demonstrably not compliant with said standard. The real problem is a bug in whatever system wrote the original file. Cheers! |-------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Frederick F. Gleason, Jr. | Chief Developer | | | Paravel Systems | |-------------------------------------------------------------------------| | If there *is* a communications problem, I haven't heard about it! | | -- Dr. James Coles | |-------------------------------------------------------------------------| _______________________________________________ Rivendell-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev
