Re: [arch-d] I-D Action: draft-iab-protocol-maintenance-08.txt

[Joel Halpern <[e-mail]>]

Your description of the Robustness Principle below does not match my 
understanding at all.  It was never intended as an excuse for protocol 
developers to do a bad job.

If that is what you object to, write a draft that objects to that.  And 
provide examples where you consider that happened. Your current draft 
does something different, asking us to give up a tool that has proven at 
least in the Internet and Routing areas to be very useful.

Yours,

Joel

On 7/13/2022 12:14 AM, Martin Thomson wrote:
> This idea that the robustness principle might step in where the 
> protocol design falls short is exactly the sort of thing that needs to 
> stop. We can do better (see above), but relying on implementers to 
> just get it right was a poor strategy even when we didn't know much 
> better. Collectively, we are a group experts who are equipped with the 
> best knowledge and tooling, so there really isn't any excuse for 
> shipping specifications that fall over when they encounter something 
> as trivially predictable as a race condition.
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