Technical Summary
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, descriptions, or metadata
for these Web services. Documentation is primarily intended for human
consumers, whereas descriptions are primarily intended for automated consumers;
metadata is supposed to be information about a service's context. It also
defines a link relation to identify status resources that are used to represent
operational information about service status.
Working Group Summary
This is not a product of any WG, however HTTPBIS WG was made aware of this document.
Document Quality
The Document Shepherd thinks that Informational is appropriate
for this document; it's not likely to cause harm, and it may do some
good, but it hasn't been widely reviewed or implemented enough
to make it standards-track.
Personnel
Mark Nottingham is the document shepherd;
Alexey Melnikov is the responsible Area Director.