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by marcosdumay 576 days ago
From wikipedia:

> The principle is also known as Postel's law, after Jon Postel, who used the wording in an early specification of TCP.

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From the mentioned specification:

> TCP implementations should follow a general principle of robustness: be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others.

Better to look in the sources ;)