[gjm11]

The article doesn't say to call an API without hypermedia a "level 2 REST API"; in fact it says the exact opposite.

> I should stress that the RMM, while a good way to think about what the elements of REST, is not a definition of levels of REST itself. Roy Fielding has made it clear that level 3 RMM is a pre-condition of REST.

[JimDabell]

Sorry, there’s a little bit of background knowledge needed here – this is an old and very well-known article. The article itself is correct, but nevertheless, after it became popular, a tonne of people started using the terminology “level two REST” to justify calling APIs that were not REST “REST”. I’m more responding to that than the article itself.