One Web or Three? HTTP - slide "REST Architectural Style"

Too long of a story for today
- dissertation available on Web [Fielding 2000]
- independent discussion on RESTWiki [Baker et al.]
An architectural style can be used to define the principles behind the Web architecture such that they are visible to future architects
- A style is a named set of constraints on architectural elements
REST was used to guide definition and implementation of modern Web architecture
- modifications to HTTP and URI
- implementations in Apache, libwww-perl,