[jimjag]

If people don't agree with what it means, it's because they aren't spending time reading the actual dissertation. Instead they are kind of glancing over it and depending on others interpretations to create their own. As someone who writes protocol specs, Roy takes great care in being as clear as possible: confusion, inconsistency and misinterpretation are not Worthy Things in protocol implementations. To truly understand REST, you MUST understand HTTP and the rationale behind it.

[oftenwrong]

Perhaps he should have written a specification for REST.

[dwaltrip]

Words are defined by their usage, not by what one person thinks, even if they came up with the word.