21 May
2024
21 May
'24
3:03 a.m.
What I meant was that the LangSec people reject the
robustness
principle as it is commonly understood (i.e., make a "reasonable"
guess when receiving garbage), not necessarily that their view is
incompatible with Postel's original vision. This interpretation of the
principle is pretty widespread; take a look at the Nginx mailing list
if you have any doubt. I attribute this to the same phenomenon that
inverted the meaning of REST.
Oh, OK, no disagreement there. I'm as tired as you are of people invoking
Postel to excuse slovenly code.
Regards,
John Levine, johnl(a)taugh.com, Taughannock Networks, Trumansburg NY
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