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Re: [apps-discuss] RESTful definition

Dave Crocker <dhc@dcrocker.net> Mon, 15 September 2014 20:25 UTC

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On 9/15/2014 1:18 PM, Carsten Bormann wrote:
> On 15 Sep 2014, at 22:15, Murray S. Kucherawy <superuser@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Is there a sufficiently stable definition for "REST" or "RESTful" we can reference from a future RFC?  I can't think of anything authoritative, 
> 
> What’s wrong with Roy Fielding’s dissertation?
> For RFC 7252, we used:



A "definition" is usually relatively short, measured by a few sentences.

An entire book is rather too long to qualify.

A tight reference to a few sentences /in/ a book might be useful, of course.

It is also possible that, over the years, the industry has found some
concise wording to define the term that is better than what Roy came up
with for his dissertation.

d/
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Dave Crocker
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