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From: Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com>
To: Ben Kallus <benjamin.p.kallus.gr@dartmouth.edu>
Cc: John Levine <johnl@taugh.com>, tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: [TUHS] Re: OT: LangSec (Re: A fuzzy awk.)
Date: Mon, 20 May 2024 14:57:40 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20240520215740.GG27662@mcvoy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAB6pCSbFDabCiRpvx0uk=5BMR1=2F-ATJRWW2kHDz7VYE10=Yw@mail.gmail.com>

Those would be the stupid people and you can't fix stupid.  Seriously,
people can twist anything into anything.  Just because dumb people
didn't understand his principle doesn't mean it was a bad principle.

On Mon, May 20, 2024 at 05:46:48PM -0400, Ben Kallus wrote:
> My point was that, regardless of Postel's original intent, many people
> have interpreted his principle to mean that accepting garbage is good.
> *This* interpretation is incompatible with LangSec.
> 
> See RFC 9413 for an exploration of the many interpretations of
> Postel's principle.
> 
> -Ben

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Larry McVoy           Retired to fishing          http://www.mcvoy.com/lm/boat

  reply	other threads:[~2024-05-20 21:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-05-20 13:06 [TUHS] A fuzzy awk. (Was: The 'usage: ...' message.) Douglas McIlroy
2024-05-20 13:14 ` [TUHS] " arnold
2024-05-20 14:00   ` G. Branden Robinson
2024-05-20 13:25 ` Chet Ramey
2024-05-20 13:41   ` [TUHS] Re: A fuzzy awk Ralph Corderoy
2024-05-20 14:26     ` Chet Ramey
2024-05-22 13:44     ` arnold
2024-05-20 13:54 ` Ralph Corderoy
2024-05-20 15:39   ` [TUHS] OT: LangSec (Re: A fuzzy awk.) Åke Nordin
2024-05-20 16:09     ` [TUHS] " Ben Kallus
2024-05-20 20:02       ` John Levine
2024-05-20 20:11         ` Larry McVoy
2024-05-20 21:00           ` Ben Kallus
2024-05-20 21:03             ` John R Levine
2024-05-20 21:14             ` Larry McVoy
2024-05-20 21:46               ` Ben Kallus
2024-05-20 21:57                 ` Larry McVoy [this message]
2024-05-20 16:06 ` [TUHS] Re: A fuzzy awk. (Was: The 'usage: ...' message.) Paul Winalski

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