12 Mar
2015
12 Mar
'15
8:37 p.m.
I feel required to point out that Postel's Law was sage advice for its time, but should now be amended with "but assume that all input is hostile." On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 08:28:22PM -0400, Tim Durack wrote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Postel
Postel's Law Perhaps his most famous legacy is from RFC 760, which includes a Robustness Principle which is often labeled Postel's Law: "an implementation should be conservative in its sending behavior, and liberal in its receiving behavior" (reworded in RFC 1122 as "Be liberal in what you accept, and conservative in what you send").