Check out Google's API Discovery Service[1] and a video from the 2010 I/O Conference[2]. It may not be the best basis for developing a RESTful standard but ther

Check out Google's API Discovery Service[1] and a video from the 2010 I/O Conference[2]. It may not be the best basis for developing a RESTful standard but there's some good stuff there. I especially like how they demonstrate building an API in that video. I'd like to see some open source projects built around this concept (instead we keep seeing similar services that aren't open, often incomplete and unusable). [1] https://developers.google.com/discovery/ https://developers.google.com/discovery/ [2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyu5ZxGUfgs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyu5ZxGUfgs (~35:30 is where they actually demonstrate building an API)