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• Subject: Postel's law, exceptions
• From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>
• Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 15:26:49 -0500

This has come up before, but the chant "Postel's law has no exceptions"
seems to be coming again, in the RSS context.

http://tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2004/01/11/PostelPilgrim

has Tim Bray's argument and lots of links to others.

Norm Walsh also has a piece at:

http://norman.walsh.name/2004/01/12/postel

Also an interesting bit at:

http://www.intertwingly.net/blog/1685.html

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