REST - not a Standard

• REST is not a standard. You will not see the W3 putting out a REST specification. You will not see IBM or Microsoft or Sun selling a REST developer's toolkit. Why? Because REST is just an architectural style. You can't bottle up that style. You can only understand it, and design your Web services in that style.

• While REST is not a standard, it does prescribe the use of standards:

  • HTTP
  • URL
  • XML/HTML/GIF/JPEG/etc (Resource Representations)
  • text/xml, text/html, image/gif, image/jpeg, etc (Resource Types, MIME Types)

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