[algermissen]

tlack, when you write 'A lot of the more pedantic REST advocates' you make it seem as if there was a choice to be 'strict REST' or 'less pedantic REST'. The problem with that is as follows: REST is an architectural style, which means that it consists of a set of constraints it imposes on an architecture. The benefit is that such constraints induce a set of system properties (e.g. cacheability, scalability). Usually, the choice for an architecture means that you are interested in your system having these properties. Now, if you drop constraints at will, you modify the style and do not get the desired system properties. The notion of 'non pedantic REST' (or 'Low REST') is missing the point.