Re: Postel's Law (Was Re: Inclusive terminology (instead of master/slave) for network bonding/LACP)

[Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com>]

On Sat, Feb 24, 2024 at 7:37 PM Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> wrote:
>
> [...]
> Turning back more to protocol design, we have spent decades walking
> back Postel's Law as we find more and more ways that being liberal
> in what our software accepts is untenable in the face of a hostile
> Internet.

++. Postel's Law is a disaster nowadays. It was fine back in the
1980's, but it is dangerous in the toxic environments of today.

Here's what we teach our developers: Look for any reason you can to
reject the data. If you can't find a reason, then begrudgingly perform
the processing or transformation.

Jeff