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From: Ben Kallus <benjamin.p.kallus.gr@dartmouth.edu>
To: "Åke Nordin" <ake.nordin@netia.se>
Cc: tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: [TUHS] Re: OT: LangSec (Re: A fuzzy awk.)
Date: Mon, 20 May 2024 12:09:54 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAB6pCSaf-YuBFwvqqH19tt=epqSesga7qFERKNWrFZfS3BuBAg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a7803330-e7ef-457b-822f-9b035028a2b5@netia.se>

> It may become hard to reconcile this with the robustness principle
> (Be conservative in what you send, be liberal in what you accept)
> that Jon Postel popularized. Maybe it becomes necessary, though.

Yes; the LangSec people essentially reject the robustness principle.

See https://langsec.org/papers/postel-patch.pdf

-Ben

  reply	other threads:[~2024-05-20 16:10 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     ` Ben Kallus [this message]
2024-05-20 20:02       ` [TUHS] " 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
2024-05-20 16:06 ` [TUHS] Re: A fuzzy awk. (Was: The 'usage: ...' message.) Paul Winalski

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