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Re: [rest-discuss] request to register 'describes' link relation (http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-wilde-describes-link-01)

Erik Wilde <dret@berkeley.edu> Wed, 10 October 2012 06:11 UTC

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hello nathan.

On 2012-10-09 13:21 , Nathan wrote:
> Looks good and most useful, is it worth mentioning anywhere that this
> inverse relations(describes being the inverse of describedby) is now
> needed due to @rev falling out of fashion? It may help explain why
> describes wasn't defined by powder in the first instance.

honestly, i think such a comment would probably confuse more people than 
it would help. @rev never was a popular idea to begin with and only part 
of relatively few vocabularies.

cheers,

dret.

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