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'''REpresentational State Transfer''' or '''REST''' is the simplest way to extend web services to mobile devices, scanners, remote controls on TVs, telephones, radios and such. It does not make the bad assumptions of RDF/OWL or SOAP, which are under the control of large bureaucratic organizations. To catch up on this see the excellent [[MoinMoinWiki]] on it [http://internet.conveyor.com/RESTwiki/moin.cgi/RestResources at RESTwiki] and especially the [http://internet.conveyor.com/RESTwiki/moin.cgi/RestFaq REST FAQ] and [http://internet.conveyor.com/RESTwiki/moin.cgi/GFDLTextCorpus a project to decentralize control of] the [[GFDL text corpus]] and [http://internet.conveyor.com/RESTwiki/moin.cgi/WikiPedia dissolve Wikipedia] into a protocol, that could prototype the [[Consumerium protocol]] itself...! | '''REpresentational State Transfer''' or '''REST''' is the simplest way to extend web services to mobile devices, scanners, remote controls on TVs, telephones, radios and such. | ||
It refers to a list of axioms defined at [[W3]] and later refined by [[Rob Fielding]]. These were originally defined to describe [[HTTP]], the basis of the web itself. | |||
It does not make the bad assumptions of RDF/OWL or SOAP, which are under the control of large bureaucratic organizations. To catch up on this see the excellent [[MoinMoinWiki]] on it [http://internet.conveyor.com/RESTwiki/moin.cgi/RestResources at RESTwiki] and especially the [http://internet.conveyor.com/RESTwiki/moin.cgi/RestFaq REST FAQ] and [http://internet.conveyor.com/RESTwiki/moin.cgi/GFDLTextCorpus a project to decentralize control of] the [[GFDL text corpus]] and [http://internet.conveyor.com/RESTwiki/moin.cgi/WikiPedia dissolve Wikipedia] into a protocol, that could prototype the [[Consumerium protocol]] itself...! | |||
Also note, please, that most contributors are anonymous trolls, as always for the best wikis, and that they leave the troll logo of MoinMoin proudly visible. | Also note, please, that most contributors are anonymous trolls, as always for the best wikis, and that they leave the troll logo of MoinMoin proudly visible. | ||
Hurray for trolls! | Hurray for trolls! | ||