[178896] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Searching for a quote
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick W. Gilmore)
Thu Mar 12 21:28:38 2015
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
In-Reply-To: <550232EA.7040203@cox.net>
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2015 21:28:35 -0400
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On Mar 12, 2015, at 20:44 , Larry Sheldon <larrysheldon@cox.net> wrote:
> On 3/12/2015 19:20, Jason Iannone 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?
>=20
> Postel's Law: Be generous in what you accept; strict in what you =
send.*
>=20
> *=46rom aging memory, but I think that is close.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robustness_principle
Be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from =
others (often reworded as "Be conservative in what you send, be liberal =
in what you accept").
--=20
TTFN,
patrick
