[ih] The Postel Principle

[Brian Carpenter]

Correct, I was referring to the robustness principle, sorry. The two are of
course somewhat related.

Regards
    Brian
    (via tiny screen & keyboard)

On Sat, 9 Nov 2019, 20:43 Vint Cerf, <vint at google.com> wrote:

> I thought the rough consensus quote was David Clark's.
>
> V
>
> On Fri, Nov 8, 2019, 22:12 Brian E Carpenter via Internet-history <
> internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
>
>> This deserves to be a new thread. It turns out to be a warm, if not hot,
>> topic.
>>
>> On 09-Nov-19 15:32, Jack Haverty wrote:
>>
>> > In the annals of Internet History, did Jon Postel's mantra of "Rough
>> > Consensus and Running Code" fade away over time?
>>
>> First, read this draft:
>> https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-iab-protocol-maintenance-04
>>
>> There's a discussion thread at:
>>
>> https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/browse/architecture-discuss/?gbt=1&index=jBCAqATbCy0kzt8bR_59LNlWjCU
>>
>> As you will see, your question is apposite to that draft. I'm a bit
>> biased, because I was document editor for
>> https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1958 and of course Jon had a hand in that.
>>
>>     Brian
>>
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