My first solution was assuming you could not revert. If you want to allow revert then the client would first call /posts/X/versions, get a list of all versions

My first solution was assuming you could not revert. If you want to allow revert then the client would first call /posts/X/versions, get a list of all versions and then either do PATCH /posts/X { "version": "older-revision" } or PATCH /posts/X/versions/older-revision { "active": true } Access control is completely orthogonal to this; so for your sample case you would just return a 403 for any other calls (like e.g. POSTs to /posts/X/versions)