Technical Summary
To enable machine-to-machine communication using
REST-style protocols, a standard way to do resource
discovery is needed. The present document defines a
link format to enable Web Linking by constrained web
servers for describing hosted resources, their attributes
and other relationships between links. A small variation
of the HTTP Link Header format defined in RFC5988, the
CoRE Link Format is carried as a payload and is assigned
an Internet media type. A well-known URI is defined as a
default entry-point for requesting the links to resources
hosted by a server.
Working Group Summary
This document represents the consensus of the CoRE WG.
There were no significant issues of contention regarding this
specification. The principal content of the document has
been technically stable for nearly a year, during which certain
fringe cases were identified by reviewers and implementers,
and addressed in minor updates to the specification. A list of
the issues tracked and closed with regard to this document
can be found here:
http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/core/trac/query?component=link-format
Document Quality
The document is a product of the CoRE working group and
has been reviewed in detail by a number of CoRE working
group members, as well as by SecDir, GEN-ART, and
AppsDir reviewers. The specification has been implemented
widely in the CoRE community and has been used as a
central element of the CoRE informal interoperability testing
events.