The Postel Principle

[Brian E Carpenter]

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