Re: [arch-d] deprecating Postel's principle- considered harmful

["Joel M. Halpern" <[e-mail]>]

Trimmed to retain only one argument Martin made:

On 5/8/19 11:25 PM, Martin Thomson wrote:
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> RFC 1122 is my favourite articulation of the "robustness principle", because it isn't the robustness principle as much as it is just straight up common sense.  But the meme takes a different form.  The meme has the temerity of demanding that I design protocols to it, to the point that a response was necessary.
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I have never understood the principle to mean that.  I have no idea what 
the meme means, if anything.  If you want to write a document about how 
the Postel Principle is often misunderstood, and that such 
misunderstandings cause problems, I would have trouble disagreeing.
But that is not the document you wrote.

Yours,
Joel