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Re: Searching for a quote
From: Tim Durack <tdurack () gmail com>
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2015 20:28:22 -0400
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Postel Postel's Law Perhaps his most famous legacy is from RFC 760, which includes a Robustness Principle which is often labeled Postel's Law: "an implementation should be conservative in its sending behavior, and liberal in its receiving behavior" (reworded in RFC 1122 as "Be liberal in what you accept, and conservative in what you send"). On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 8:20 PM, Jason Iannone <jason.iannone () 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?
-- Tim:>
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