Re: Packet length: header vs. context
Ian G <iang@systemics.com> Mon, 08 January 2007 17:46 UTC
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Peter Gutmann wrote: > Jon Callas <jon@callas.org> writes: >> Postel said that, actually, long before there was any GNU except those one >> might find in a zoo. > > And before Jon Postel said that, the MIT hackers said "Look for anything that > says 'Don't to X', then try as many variations of X as possible. "Postel's > Law" is great for interoperability, terrible for security. Thanks guys, I stand corrected! Perhaps it is better termed "Postel's Proposition" because of the rather large exception perhaps captured as "Bernstein's Anti-Corollary?" I for one think that the Postel view is bad for interoperability as well because it leads to a loose and divergent community, which eventually leads to standards wars. Oh joy... iang
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- Re: Packet length: header vs. context Jon Callas
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