> Firstly REST did not come *after* the fact as you state.
I was on the HTTP WG for a bit. I don't ever recall any "guiding
architectural principles" being emphasized. It was all being made up as
we went along, with occasional number-crunching (cf Mogul's 95SIGCOMM
paper) the notable exception.
Now, this is not to say that such things DIDN'T happen, just that I
don't remember them during my (incomplete) tenure on the mailing list.
It certainly could have happened
> 6. This work was done in conjunction with my authoring of the Internet
> standards for the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) and Uniform Resource
> Identifiers (URI)."
Hm. Thie following search result from Google is a bit curious, then:
Your search - state transfer fielding representational
site:ftp.ics.uci.edu - did not match any documents.
:)
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