[mikek85]

Actually, I think the REST community is pretty clear on this now - there's no need need to accept incorrect definitions, omitting the hypertext constraint is not REST. "While the true definition is interesting for academic purposes and certainly lies behind the technologies upon which we build every day, it simply doesn’t have a whole lot of use to web application developers" - this is missing the point a bit.. If you're developing web apps for humans the reason REST 'doesn't have a use' is because it's already been 'used' to produce HTTP and HTML. "Doing REST" is essentially the process of designing hypermedia types, and defining/extending a uniform interface. Examples of that would be writing the AtomPub spec or reintroducing Link headers.