Re: It's been 20 years today (Oct 16, UTC). Hard to believe.

[Michael Thomas <mike () mtcc com>]

On 10/16/2018 08:20 PM, bzs () theworld com wrote:
> On October 16, 2018 at 19:35 mike () mtcc com (Michael Thomas) wrote:
>   > I believe that the IETF party line these days is that Postel was wrong
>   > on this point. Security is one consideration, but there are others.
>
> Security fits into all this, being liberal in what you accept doesn't
> mean you do whatever they ask.
>
> Quite the contrary it means make sure your code doesn't roll over dead
> or misbehaving just because you received an unexpected input.

That's not the same thing. That's never acceptable. Trying to educe what 
a sender really meant is a good way to create exploitable spaghetti 
though. But don't take my word for it, reach out to people who pay more 
attention to such things than me.

Mike