Re: [arch-d] deprecating Postel's principle- considered harmful
"Joel M. Halpern" <jmh@joelhalpern.com> Tue, 07 May 2019 21:13 UTC
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Subject: Re: [arch-d] deprecating Postel's principle- considered harmful
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I note that both Adam and Barry in their emails talk about this being particularly applicable at the upper layers. Except that is not what the document says. If you want to write a document about application protocols, then the applications area can have the discussion. But this document does not say that. So in addition to seconding the comments from several other people, I would ask that the document be aligned with what the supporters say it is about. Yours, Joel On 5/7/19 5:00 PM, Adam Roach wrote: > On 5/7/19 3:48 PM, Andrew G. Malis wrote: >> I don't agree that poor application programming is a result of the >> Postel principle, it's a result of incompetence or laziness. > > > For better or worse, significant portions of the Internet -- at least at > the application layer -- run on what you're calling incompetence and/or > laziness [1] . The question is: to what degree has Postel's Principle > contributed to this state of affairs; and, if we think it's a major > factor, can we change things so that future protocols don't suffer from > this as much? > > To be clear, I'm not reading this as trying to put the genie back in the > bottle for already-deployed protocols like SMTP. I read this as > suggesting that maybe future protocols should be a bit more picky about > not accepting messages that are malformed or sequences of messages that > are unorthodox, even if some degree of processing is technically possible. > > /a > > ____ > [1] More generously, they're probably more the result of things like > cutting corners to meet deadlines and budgets, when the people cutting > corners suffer no consequences for the resulting protocol pollution. > >
- Re: [arch-d] deprecating Postel's principle- cons… BRUNGARD, DEBORAH A
- Re: [arch-d] deprecating Postel's principle- cons… Barry Leiba
- Re: [arch-d] deprecating Postel's principle- cons… Stephen Farrell
- Re: [arch-d] deprecating Postel's principle- cons… Brian E Carpenter
- Re: [arch-d] deprecating Postel's principle- cons… Andrew G. Malis
- Re: [arch-d] deprecating Postel's principle- cons… Barry Leiba
- Re: [arch-d] deprecating Postel's principle- cons… Warren Kumari
- Re: [arch-d] deprecating Postel's principle- cons… Tony Li
- Re: [arch-d] deprecating Postel's principle- cons… Stephen Farrell
- Re: [arch-d] deprecating Postel's principle- cons… Adam Roach
- Re: [arch-d] deprecating Postel's principle- cons… Salz, Rich
- Re: [arch-d] deprecating Postel's principle- cons… Joel M. Halpern
- Re: [arch-d] deprecating Postel's principle- cons… Adam Roach
- Re: [arch-d] [IAB] deprecating Postel's principle… Christian Huitema
- Re: [arch-d] [IAB] deprecating Postel's principle… Stephen Farrell
- Re: [arch-d] deprecating Postel's principle- cons… Matthew Kerwin
- Re: [arch-d] deprecating Postel's principle- cons… Rich Kulawiec
- Re: [arch-d] deprecating Postel's principle- cons… Henning Schulzrinne
- Re: [arch-d] [IAB] deprecating Postel's principle… Henning Schulzrinne
- Re: [arch-d] deprecating Postel's principle- cons… Christian Huitema
- Re: [arch-d] deprecating Postel's principle- cons… Brian E Carpenter
- Re: [arch-d] deprecating Postel's principle- cons… Henning Schulzrinne
- Re: [arch-d] deprecating Postel's principle- cons… Mark Andrews
- Re: [arch-d] deprecating Postel's principle- cons… Paul Wouters
- Re: [arch-d] [IAB] deprecating Postel's principle… Randy Bush
- Re: [arch-d] deprecating Postel's principle- cons… Joe Touch
- Re: [arch-d] deprecating Postel's principle- cons… Carsten Bormann
- Re: [arch-d] deprecating Postel's principle- cons… Jari Arkko
- Re: [arch-d] deprecating Postel's principle- cons… John C Klensin
- Re: [arch-d] deprecating Postel's principle- cons… Henning Schulzrinne
- Re: [arch-d] deprecating Postel's principle- cons… Phillip Hallam-Baker
- Re: [arch-d] deprecating Postel's principle- cons… Bless, Roland (TM)
- Re: [arch-d] deprecating Postel's principle- cons… Joe Touch
- Re: [arch-d] deprecating Postel's principle- cons… Henry S. Thompson
- Re: [arch-d] deprecating Postel's principle- cons… Henning Schulzrinne
- Re: [arch-d] deprecating Postel's principle- cons… Henning Schulzrinne
- Re: [arch-d] deprecating Postel's principle- cons… S Moonesamy
- Re: [arch-d] deprecating Postel's principle- cons… Eliot Lear
- Re: [arch-d] deprecating Postel's principle- cons… Carsten Bormann
- Re: [arch-d] deprecating Postel's principle- cons… Eliot Lear
- Re: [arch-d] deprecating Postel's principle- cons… Bob Briscoe
- Re: [arch-d] deprecating Postel's principle- cons… Henning Schulzrinne
- Re: [arch-d] deprecating Postel's principle- cons… Henry S. Thompson