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Re: [art] Unichars / Modern Network Unicode / PRECIS

John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> Wed, 20 March 2024 16:33 UTC

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Subject: Re: [art] Unichars / Modern Network Unicode / PRECIS
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It appears that Martin Thomson  <mt@lowentropy.net> said:
>On Wed, Mar 20, 2024, at 11:17, Paul Kyzivat wrote:
>> Postel's law is often the wise thing to do.
>
>Consider me successfully invoked: RFC 9413 says all that needs to be said on this topic.  But to summarize: the robustness principle is
>not wise, merely expedient.

My understanding is that Postel said you should be liberal *when the
spec is ambiguous.* He didn't say you should work around broken
implementations, although a lot of people seem to believe that he did.

R's,
John

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