Mike Amundsen

to be clear... - one or more properties MAY fulfill a selected requirement. - one property MAY fulfill more than one requirement. requirements exist separate from properties and constraints as...

what is "Mobile Aware" and why does this matter at all? am i _required_ to now produce output in this style that _always_ works with _all_ things mobile?

I question whether the list two (Dist. Hypermedia & Internet Scale) are required for "The Web API" style. This is esp. true if this style is to be applied within...

Extensibility does not _require_ versioning. Extending is the least-disruptive way to mod existing APIs. Extensibility can also be handled via portable code and configurability (see my comment earlier). And, are...

i think we're in agreement here on the general issue. my last para was meant to point out that, like versioning, hypermedia is simply a method for handling change over...

ok, i'm cool w/ this. thanks.

@alexpetros : happy to see this proposal. adding here that it would be a good idea to consider how the ETag and Last-Modifed headers can be used to create conditional...

why not include more than one element in _templates? ``` { "_links: {...}, "_templates" : { "self" : { ... }, "assignCommand" : { ... }, "resolveCommand" : { ......

you can use the `href` that appears in the associated `link` object inline. ``` { "_links: {...}, "assignCommand" : { "href" : "/issues/1/assign-commands", ...}, "resolveCommand" : { "href" : "/issues/1/resolve-commands",...

yep. that's how it works for stand-alone HAL-FORMS, too. or you can use the `_htarget` query string value to add/override that.