Link Relation Types for Web Services
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Network Working Group                                           E. Wilde
Internet-Draft                                           CA Technologies
Intended status: Informational                            March 13, 2017
Expires: September 14, 2017

                  Link Relation Types for Web Services
                    draft-wilde-service-link-rel-03

Abstract

   Many resources provided on the Web are part of sets of resources that
   are provided in a context that is managed by one particular service
   provider.  Often, these sets of resources are referred to as "Web
   Services" or "Web APIs".  This specification defines link relations
   for representing relationships from those resources to ones that
   provide documentation or descriptions of the Web services.  The
   difference between these concepts is that documentation is primarily
   intended for human consumers, whereas descriptions are primarily
   intended for automated consumers.  It also defines a link relation to
   identify a status resource that is used to represent operational
   information about a service's status.

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Table of Contents

   1.  Introduction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   2
   2.  Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
   3.  Web Services  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
     3.1.  Documenting Web Services  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
     3.2.  Describing Web Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   5
     3.3.  Unified Documentation/Description . . . . . . . . . . . .   5
   4.  Link Relations for Web Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   5
     4.1.  The service-doc Link Relation Type  . . . . . . . . . . .   5
     4.2.  The service-desc Link Relation Type . . . . . . . . . . .   6
   5.  Web Service Status Resources  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   6
   6.  IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   6
     6.1.  Link Relation Type: service-doc . . . . . . . . . . . . .   6
     6.2.  Link Relation Type: service-desc  . . . . . . . . . . . .   7
     6.3.  Link Relation Type: status  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   7
   7.  Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   7
   8.  References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   7
     8.1.  Normative References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   7
     8.2.  Informative References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   7
   Appendix A.  Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   7
   Author's Address  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8

1.  Introduction

   One of the defining aspects of the Web is that it is possible to
   interact with Web resources without any prior knowledge of the
   specifics of the resource.  Following Web Architecture
   [W3C.REC-webarch-20041215] by using URIs, HTTP, and media types, the
   Web's uniform interface allows interactions with resources without
   the more complex binding procedures of other approaches.

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   Many resources on the Web are provided as part of a set of resources