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Dave Crocker <dcrocker@gmail.com> Thu, 17 January 2019 17:54 UTC

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From: Dave Crocker <dcrocker@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [dmarc-ietf] Nitpicky questions about DMARC record syntax
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On 1/17/2019 8:53 AM, John Levine wrote:
> In article<43ae9a84-75e3-1292-d3f4-68f3a74458a3@spamtrap.tnetconsulting.net
>  you write:
>> However I still feel like/requiring/  exact case is contrary to the idea
>> of "Be liberal in what you accept and conservative in what you send.".
> Yup.  See
> 
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-iab-protocol-maintenance
> 
> a/k/a "Postel was wrong".

The common interpretation of Postel's dictum is to use it as an excuse 
to ignore specification details.

That was not what he intended.  Rather, he intended its use in the way 
that Ned invoked:

> On 1/17/2019 5:00 AM, ned+dmarc@mrochek.com wrote:
>> Sorry, I meant to mention this in my previous response. It's one thing
>> when there's wiggle-room or lack of clarity in the standard. It's quite
>> another when things are clear, as is the case here.


Be liberal when the specification leaves room for doubt.  Not when it 
doesn't.

d/

ps. I don't know why the spec, here, demands case sensitivity but it is 
quite clear that it does.

-- 
Dave Crocker
Brandenburg InternetWorking
bbiw.net

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