Published on: 2025-05-27 12:47:03
Postel's Law and the Three Ring Circus Postel’s Law famously states that “implementations should follow a general principle of robustness: be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others.” For many years, this was considered a bedrock design principle for internet ecosystems, but in recent years it has fallen out of favor. In this post I will explain the deterioration that ecosystems which endeavor to follow Postel’s Law frequently experience, and why it produces parti
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