Re: deprecating Postel's principle - considered harmful

[Eliot Lear <lear@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 10 May 2019, at 19:58, Ted Lemon <mellon@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On May 10, 2019, at 1:52 PM, Doug Royer <douglasroyer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

their bug fix cycle is maybe a year away

This is perfectly fine.   If they aren’t maintaining their code, it’s better for it not to work.   Year-long bug fix cycles are a security vulnerability: the more pain that they cause before something gets hacked into, the better.

This is a matter of market power and who really sets the standard.  If the choice is between not accepting a buggy implementation and selling product, guess which wins.

Eliot

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