[45134] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Persistent BGP peer flapping - do you care?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tony Hain)
Thu Jan 17 20:24:07 2002
From: "Tony Hain" <alh-ietf@tndh.net>
To: "Dickson, Brian" <brian.dickson@velocita.com>, <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 17:22:30 -0800
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Dickson, Brian wrote:
> A good rule of thumb (possibly from RFC 822) is, be liberal
> in what you
> accept and strict in what you send.
While it has appeared in several docs, the earliest I have found is
RFC760 (not to be confused with the most prophetic RFC706 - On the junk
mail problem) which was the predecessor to RFC791 - IPv4.
Tony
