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> On Jul 14, 2022, at 7:30 AM, Vittorio Bertola <vittorio.bertola=40open-xchange.com@dmarc.ietf.org> wrote:
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> In the end, the robustness principle is a democratizing factor - it ensures that people who cannot afford to implement or deploy updates very quickly, or do not have highly skilled personnel to implement things right at the first attempt, can still stay on the network and communicate, while taking their time to learn about the problems and fix their stuff.

There seems to be a LOT of confusion about the robustness principle.

It is NOT about skipping updates or allowing bugs.

It IS about the fact that no specification is complete and the ways that different people interpret the same specification.

Joe

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