Trimmed to retain only one argument Martin made: On 5/8/19 11:25 PM, Martin Thomson wrote: ....
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.
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
