I saw a nice example that covered the classic "bank account transfer" case. The answer was that you POST something that's like a deposit slip. Some systems,

I saw a nice example that covered the classic "bank account transfer" case. The answer was that you POST something that's like a deposit slip. Some systems, like the Kuali accounting system, use a document-centric approach to business software. You can have a workflow that's much like a traditional paper-based system, so this can make a lot of sense. You can overlay this on top of REST to solve many of the problems that REST has, but then you end up with much of REST being just a fifth wheel. As for ranges, lately I've been sketching up a hypertext system that has some inspiration from Ted Nelson's Xanadu system. In particular, hyperlinks can be made to and from arbitrary ranges in documents, without touching the documents directly. You can certainly encode ranges in a URL, so something like /conference_room_3/time_slot_7,time_slot_12 might be POSTable to