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- From: mike at mtcc.com (Michael Thomas)
- Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2015 17:31:54 -0700
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Jon Postel. I'm told that it is out of favor these days in protocol-land,
from a security standpoint if nothing else.
Mike
On 3/12/15 5:24 PM, Tom Paseka wrote:
> Be conservative in what you send, be liberal in what you accept
>
> ^http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robustness_principle
>
> On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 5:20 PM, Jason Iannone <jason.iannone at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> There was once a fairly common saying attributed to an early
>> networking pioneer that went something like, "be generous in what you
>> accept, and send only the stuff that should be sent." Does anyone
>> know what I'm talking about or who said it?
>>