On Sat, Feb 24, 2024, 6:37 PM Andy Smith <a...@strugglers.net> wrote:
> Hi, > > On Sat, Feb 24, 2024 at 04:54:12PM +0000, Alain D D Williams wrote: > > I sometimes think that something similar to Postel's Law but applied to > human > > interactions would be useful. However that is wishful thinking > > .... > I'm not saying DON'T give people the benefit of the doubt, but just > always be aware that when you do there will be people who take > advantage of that. > > 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. > Quoting Paul Vixie 30 years ago at the Usenix technical conference (author of various RFCs: DHCP, NNTP....): "Its important to remember that the internet escaped from the lab long before we could put it into anything like production form. It's equally important that our masters do not learn that". Thanks, > Andy > > -- > https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting > >
