From: "Jacob Palme" <jpalme(_at_)dsv(_dot_)su(_dot_)se>
Sent: Friday, October 04, 2002 3:08 AM
I have a long time complained that IETF standards did not
tell implementors how to practically implement this golden
rule. What is the difference between the conservative
standards interpretation (what you should send) and the
liberal standards interpretation (what you should accept).
I don't understand the question. Computer science students have
long been taught that they must reasonably handle invalid input, at
the same time that they document precisely what the input must be.
How is this different from web servers still accepting http 1.0 or
C compilers still accepting K&R C?
Gary