The Robustness Principle

2.10. Robustness Principle

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

Source:

• rfc793: specification for TCP
• date: 1981
• editor: Jon Postel
• url: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/docs/rfc/rfc793.txt