Part of my comment is backed by the implicit constraint on HATEOS, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HATEOAS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HATEOAS. I've downloaded t

Part of my comment is backed by the implicit constraint on HATEOS, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HATEOAS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HATEOAS. I've downloaded the original thesis. I'll look there to see what's mentioned about the hypermedia linking process.