Re: High-level social web guiding principles to SWxG

On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 6:31 PM, Melvin Carvalho
<melvincarvalho@gmail.com> wrote:
>
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> On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 2:17 PM, "Döhler, Anita, VF-Group"
> <Anita.Doehler@vodafone.com> wrote:
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>> High level principles
>>
>> 1.      What you see depends on who you are.
>
> DKA mentioned today some potential further discussion on point (1).  So
> perhaps this may be better in a dedicated thread but the immediate questions
> I have are:
>
> 1. Will having a different veiw, depending on who you are, be necessarily be
> RESTful?

That does not impair potential RESTful-ness. Client-side cookies
achieve this already and are accepted withing the REST philosophy [1]
as they do not prevent the system from being “stateless” [2].

> 2. Is being RESTful a pre-requisite, in general?

I don't think being RESTful is a pre-requisite at the W3C (can
somebody confirm this?). It's certainly not a pre-requisite for the
industry at-large.


Cheers,
Tim


[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representational_State_Transfer#Constraints
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stateless_server

Received on Monday, 1 February 2010 15:39:00 UTC