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This is an interesting point. Taken to its extreme, Postel's law will trade some abstraction for robustness. Conversely, Hyrum's law will trade some robustnes
by omginternets 4y ago
This is an interesting point. Taken to its extreme, Postel's law will trade some abstraction for robustness. Conversely, Hyrum's law will trade some robustness for abstraction.
- lupire 4y agoHyrum's law is an extension Postel's law to say "accept everything you accepted in the past"
- pencilguin 4y agoPostel's law has turned out to be a disaster for security, and for extensibility. If everything you can get already means something, nothing can ever mean anything new. "Be clear about what you will accept", instead. And, make sure there is an easy way to discover why it was not accepted.
- detaro 4y agoNo, it does not prescribe anything you should or shouldn't do.