- From: Tim Anglade <timanglade@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2010 16:38:24 +0100
- To: Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com>
- Cc: Döhler, Anita, VF-Group <Anita.Doehler@vodafone.com>, public-xg-socialweb@w3.org
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 6:31 PM, Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 2:17 PM, "Döhler, Anita, VF-Group" > <Anita.Doehler@vodafone.com> wrote: >> >> 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
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