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Postel's Law was a bad idea. https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-thomson-postel-was-wrong-00 https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-thomson-postel

• cwmoore 2y ago
  '"bug for bug" compatible'
• smarks 2y ago
  Good reference! Turns out this internet draft has been turned into an official, informational RFC: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc9413 https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc9413 I don't think Postel's Law was necessarily a bad idea, in its time and context. However it seems to have fallen into usage as an argument-ender. This RFC is a useful antidote to that.