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INFORMATIONAL

Author:

E. Wilde

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IETF

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NON WORKING GROUP

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DOI:  https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC8631

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Abstract

Many resources provided on the Web are part of sets of resources thatare provided in a context that is managed by one particular serviceprovider. Often, these sets of resources are referred to as "Web services" or "Web APIs". This specification defines link relationsthat represent relationships from Web services or APIs to resourcesthat provide documentation, descriptions, metadata, or statusinformation for these resources. Documentation is primarily intendedfor human consumers, whereas descriptions are primarily intended forautomated consumers. Metadata provides information about a service'scontext. This specification also defines a link relation to identifystatus resources that are used to represent information about servicestatus.

For the definition ofStatus,seeRFC 2026.

For the definition ofStream, seeRFC 8729.