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This has little to do with the robustness principle, however mis-stated. It's just shitty design. But if someone was still hell-bent on invoking it, then if anything, it's a straight-up violation of the adjacent words "be conservative in what you do"¹, and further disregards the commentary in RFC1122²:

    ... assume that the network is
    filled with malevolent entities that will send in packets
    designed to have the worst possible effect ...
[1] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc761#section-2.10

[2] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc1122#page-12



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