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> there's wisdom in Postel's law.

For the lazy like me: robustness principle, aka Postel's law

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robustness_principle

Thank you for the reference. I learned something today!

>>rumana+(OP)
Thanks for the link, for which there's the counter-argument, "The Harmful Consequences of the Robustness Principle" [0]:

> A flaw can become entrenched as a de facto standard. Any implementation of the protocol is required to replicate the aberrant behavior, or it is not interoperable. This is both a consequence of applying Postel's advice, and a product of a natural reluctance to avoid fatal error conditions.

[0] https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-iab-protocol-maintenance-0...