- From: Chris Newman <cnewman@iplanet.com>
- Date: Thu, 03 May 2001 17:25:04 -0700
- To: Jacob Palme <jpalme@dsv.su.se>, discuss@apps.ietf.org
I disagree with all three of the proposed rules. "be liberal in what you accept" leads to non-interoperability when interpreted too broadly. Munging can be a good idea when changing data in a way that improves the receiver's ability to render it. Munging ill-formed data can improve interoperability if done appropriately. Necessary intelligence is important in software. NTP has to be rather intelligent to work correctly. And it works quite well. The multipart/alternative spec probably just failed to provide enough UI advice. But Mulberry implemented it correctly. - Chris
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