[178890] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Searching for a quote
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jason Iannone)
Thu Mar 12 20:42:08 2015
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From: Jason Iannone <jason.iannone@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2015 18:31:45 -0600
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Thanks all.
On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 6:28 PM, Tim Durack <tdurack@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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?
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> Tim:>
