At 2011-02-15 17:26:54 +0530, j...@pobox.com wrote: > > On 15-Feb-2011, at 2:54 PM, Pranesh Prakash wrote: > > > > This talk of shenanigans and bandwidth conservation reminded me > > of Postel's Prescription: “Be liberal in what you accept, and > > conservative in what you send”.[1]
I don't see the relevance to this discussion, so I'll digress to say that it always annoys me when Postel is quoted to justify accepting all sorts of malformed nonsense in protocol implementations. The idea is to be accepting where there is some ambiguity or different interpretations of the standard, not to accept things which are outright invalid. > > [1] http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/P/Postels-Prescription.html > > Better known as Postel's Law or the Robustness Principle. "Postel's > Prescription" is new usage for me. It's probably just something ESR made up. -- ams
