Stephen Downes

Knowledge, Learning, Community
The challenger depicted in this article is called Representation State Transfer, or REST. Most of the flurry of discussion about REST happened in April of 2002 and then faded, but the concept is emerging again. The REST home page (actually a Wiki; not linked to in the article, but you can find it here) argues that "REST suggests that what the Web got right is having a small, global set of verbs applied to a potentially infinite set of nouns, because such a system allows a maximum number of otherwise uncoordinated actors to interoperate."

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