nanog mailing list archives
Re: It's been 20 years today (Oct 16, UTC). Hard to believe.
From: Brian Kantor <Brian () ampr org>
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2018 11:10:31 -0700
On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 02:01:48PM -0400, Daniel Corbe wrote:
The one thing I remember about Postel, other than the fact that he had his fingers in a lot of DNS pies, is be liberal about what you accept, be conservative about what you send. It’s a notion that creates undo burden on the implementor, because it places the expectation on the that you need to account for every conceivable ambiguous corner case and that’s not always the best approach when implementing a standard; and it mostly arises from the lack of adherence to the second part of that statement.
I think that his aphorism is simply a recognition that NO standard can cover all cases that might arise when dealing with complex matters, no matter how much thought went into it. People are fallible, and the standards they write are inevitably flawed in some way, so a realistic implementor has to allow some slack or be continually engaged in finger-pointing when something doesn't work. - Brian
Current thread:
- It's been 20 years today (Oct 16, UTC). Hard to believe. Rodney Joffe (Oct 15)
- Re: It's been 20 years today (Oct 16, UTC). Hard to believe. Suzanne Woolf (Oct 15)
- Re: It's been 20 years today (Oct 16, UTC). Hard to believe. Brian Kantor (Oct 15)
- Re: It's been 20 years today (Oct 16, UTC). Hard to believe. Wayne Bouchard (Oct 15)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: It's been 20 years today (Oct 16, UTC). Hard to believe. Scott Weeks (Oct 16)
- Re: It's been 20 years today (Oct 16, UTC). Hard to believe. Daniel Corbe (Oct 16)
- Re: It's been 20 years today (Oct 16, UTC). Hard to believe. Brian Kantor (Oct 16)
- Re: It's been 20 years today (Oct 16, UTC). Hard to believe. Wayne Bouchard (Oct 16)
- Re: It's been 20 years today (Oct 16, UTC). Hard to believe. Fred Baker (Oct 16)
- Re: It's been 20 years today (Oct 16, UTC). Hard to believe. bzs (Oct 16)
- Re: It's been 20 years today (Oct 16, UTC). Hard to believe. Michael Thomas (Oct 16)
- Re: It's been 20 years today (Oct 16, UTC). Hard to believe. bzs (Oct 16)
- Re: It's been 20 years today (Oct 16, UTC). Hard to believe. Michael Thomas (Oct 16)
- Re: It's been 20 years today (Oct 16, UTC). Hard to believe. Daniel Corbe (Oct 16)
- Re: It's been 20 years today (Oct 16, UTC). Hard to believe. Scott Brim (Oct 16)
- Re: It's been 20 years today (Oct 16, UTC). Hard to believe. Michael Thomas (Oct 16)
- Re: It's been 20 years today (Oct 16, UTC). Hard to believe. Florian Weimer (Oct 17)
- Re: It's been 20 years today (Oct 16, UTC). Hard to believe. bzs (Oct 17)