Re: Postel's Principle and Layer 9 protocol engineering

Dean Willis <dean.willis@softarmor.com> Sun, 06 June 2021 22:35 UTC

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Subject: Re: Postel's Principle and Layer 9 protocol engineering
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-------- Original Message --------
On Jun 6, 2021, 3:56 PM, Larry Masinter < LMM@acm.org> wrote:

I disagree with your characterization of “kill them all” as “commonly used” or as a “term of art”.

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Like you never used a kill -9?

And the IESG never had conversations about killing working groups or even entire areas?