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I don’t think the reference to Postel’s law is correct here: Postel’s law is about robustness, not about abstractness.

Furthermore, taken at face value, Postel’s law was a phenomenal failure in principle and in practice (see e.g. [1]). In hindsight it’s probably a bad design principle.

[1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-thomson-postel-was-wrong-0...




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