This document defines a RESTful Transport Layer (RestTL), a way of working with server-held resources in a RESTful fashion. RestTL specifies standard rules for representing resources, and standard mechanisms for working with them in a RESTful fashion over a plain HTTP client-server network.

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This article is an introduction about RestMS, the RESTful Messaging Service. RestMS is a new standard for real web messaging that offers simple, scalable, and secure data delivery over ordinary HTTP.

Why do We need Messaging?

Messaging – also called “messaging middleware” or “message-oriented middleware” – connects software applications running on a variety of platforms, and written in a variety of languages, across a network. There are three main interconnected reasons why messaging is a hot topic:

  • It’s about scale. Applications create more value when they can reach more users. It used to be hard enough to make a software application that ran all by itself. Today, ‘many users’ means Internet scale. It’s one thing for a web site to handle many users. It can be far more profitable to
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Contributors also agree to license their work as necessary for submission to the IETF as an Internet RFC, where and when this is relevant.

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