2nd result on kagi was about him but in the form of another critic. https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-thomson-postel-was-wrong/ https://datatracker.ietf.o

2nd result on kagi was about him but in the form of another critic. https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-thomson-postel-was-wrong/ https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-thomson-postel-was-wr... Hard disagree. It's a valid argument, but I say it's merely an argument, not an argument that wins or should win. But also, I say that detecting out of spec or unexpected input and handling it in any other way than crashing IS adhering to Postel. Refusing to process a request is better than munging the data according to your own creative interpretation of reasonable or likely, and then processing that munged data. I consider that to be within Postel to return a nice error (or not if that would be a security divulgence). Failing Postel would be to crash or do anything unintended.