From: "John R Levine" <johnl@taugh.com>
To: "Ben Kallus" <benjamin.p.kallus.gr@dartmouth.edu>
Cc: tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: [TUHS] Re: OT: LangSec (Re: A fuzzy awk.)
Date: 20 May 2024 17:03:23 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b15fde3a-1dda-7506-3cd9-382c83d18be1@taugh.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAB6pCSYdhxS2hxQE768Pgj62sfNqgM+gY_4L1z3fiyfDXAFPhQ@mail.gmail.com>
> What I meant was that the LangSec people reject the robustness
> principle as it is commonly understood (i.e., make a "reasonable"
> guess when receiving garbage), not necessarily that their view is
> incompatible with Postel's original vision. This interpretation of the
> principle is pretty widespread; take a look at the Nginx mailing list
> if you have any doubt. I attribute this to the same phenomenon that
> inverted the meaning of REST.
Oh, OK, no disagreement there. I'm as tired as you are of people invoking
Postel to excuse slovenly code.
Regards,
John Levine, johnl@taugh.com, Taughannock Networks, Trumansburg NY
Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. https://jl.ly
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-05-20 21:03 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 [this message]
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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