Is REST without hyperlinks for discovery and "state transfer" still REST? People use REST to mean just about any type of API-over-HTTP, which makes the term nea

Is REST without hyperlinks for discovery and "state transfer" still REST? People use REST to mean just about any type of API-over-HTTP, which makes the term nearly meaningless. If someone--an individual developer, open source project, or vendor--claims to have implemented a RESTful API, that tells you nothing except that you're going use HTTP to consume it and that it probably uses JSON for data serialization. Why not just say JSON-over-HTTP instead?