[TUHS] OT: LangSec (Re: A fuzzy awk.)

[John R Levine]

> What I meant was that the LangSec people reject the robustness
> principle as it is commonly understood (i.e., make a "reasonable"
> guess when receiving garbage), not necessarily that their view is
> incompatible with Postel's original vision. This interpretation of the
> principle is pretty widespread; take a look at the Nginx mailing list
> if you have any doubt. I attribute this to the same phenomenon that
> inverted the meaning of REST.

Oh, OK, no disagreement there.  I'm as tired as you are of people invoking 
Postel to excuse slovenly code.

Regards,
John Levine, johnl at taugh.com, Taughannock Networks, Trumansburg NY
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