Fabio Mancinelli wrote:
> Vincent Massol wrote:
>> Note that I don't know what are the REST best practices. I'm jut  
>> noticing the inconsistency.
>>
> URI design is not that important (as long as the hypermedia constraints
> is fully leveraged). However having descriptive URIs and consistent URIs
> can enhance the possibility of discovering resources by guessing (i.e.
> the level of "serendipity")

I disagree. URI design is crucial, although some don't give much 
importance to it. I'd rather we sacrifice shortness for meaning. Given 
that URLs are already long, there's no need to reduce just a few parts 
to save 8 bytes. There's always purl, tinyrl and other services for this.
-- 
Sergiu Dumitriu
http://purl.org/net/sergiu/
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