- From: Vijay Saraswat <saraswat@cse.psu.edu>
- Date: Sat, 07 Jun 2003 09:23:37 -0400
- To: danny666@virgilio.it
- Cc: Frank Manola <fmanola@mitre.org>, "Roger L. Costello" <costello@mitre.org>, www-rdf-interest@w3.org
Danny Ayers wrote: >Someone, somewhere expressed Roger's suggestion more generally with >something like "be strict with what you produce and liberal with what you >consume". Although it sounds intuitively appealing, there does seem to be >evidence (around RSS) that overall drift towards laxness can be a result. >But as Frank says, you simply might not have the choice of strict in/strict >out. > In IETF circles this is called Postel's Law. Be liberal in what you accept, and conservative in what you send. http://www.postel.org/jonpostel.html -- Prof Vijay Saraswat Department of Computer Science and Engineering Pond Laboratory University Park, Pa 16802 calendar: http://calendar.yahoo.com/vjsaraswat homepage: http://www.cse.psu.edu/~saraswat phone: +1.814.863.3599 eFax: +1.973.529.0392 mail: saraswat @ cse.psu.edu AIM, Yahoo IM, AT&T IM: vjSaraswat MSN im: vijay@saraswat.org
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