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.iann...@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?


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