[kevinpet]

Your comment contradicts current linguistics. There is no "correct" separate from usefulness in communication.

If someone wants to write a REST RFC, and people can talk about "RFC-6789 Compliant REST API" then correctness would reenter the picture.

[KevBurnsJr]

"There is no "correct" separate from usefulness in communication."

I think you may have misunderstood your source. Subjective truth is only half of the equation. The other half is testing rational models against experience. If you understand the constraints of REST, you understand that it has implications not met by the API in question and thus claims to be something which it clearly is not.

Just because I tell you I'm a duck doesn't mean I'm a duck.

[ap22213]

I think Roy Fielding and the other strict REST proponents need to do a better job of explaining why we laymen should follow the rules so closely. I have read a lot of Roy's work, and those of other proponents', and I still don't see a lot of value in staying so strictly to the 'word' of REST.

Much could be helped by 'the experts' just showing us rational laymen the cost-benefit analysis. Show me how things will fall apart over time, some data would be helpful. And let me see some case studies.

Currently, my non-REST "REST" interfaces seem to be working pretty well. And, when they don't work, I go and fix them. Seems easy enough, but obviously I'm naive.