be conservative in what you send, be liberal in what you accept¶
(1122). be conservative in what you send, be liberal in what you accept. Postel's robustness principle.
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Mechanisms¶
- Lenient Parser with Canonicalizer
- The subtler cost is that broad silent tolerance teaches producers the written contract does not matter, so variants proliferate and the real contract quietly becomes "whatever the parser happens to accept."
This sourceThis tool is the "liberal accept" half; its well-documented downside is that unbounded liberal acceptance drifts the de-facto contract, which is why the accept envelope must be bounded, logged, and tightened over time.
- The subtler cost is that broad silent tolerance teaches producers the written contract does not matter, so variants proliferate and the real contract quietly becomes "whatever the parser happens to accept."
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