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Re: Searching for a quote


From: Michael Thomas <mike () mtcc com>
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2015 17:31:54 -0700

Jon Postel. I'm told that it is out of favor these days in protocol-land,
from a security standpoint if nothing else.

Mike

On 3/12/15 5:24 PM, Tom Paseka wrote:
Be conservative in what you send, be liberal in what you accept

^http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robustness_principle

On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 5:20 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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