Now that you bring it up, the JSON API specification does not even mention REST or hypermedia actually. What I was trying to get at is that media types don't ha

Now that you bring it up, the JSON API specification does not even mention REST or hypermedia actually. What I was trying to get at is that media types don't have to be coupled to the protocol. One can exchange an HTML document over HTTP just as easily as one could transmit that document over another protocol. Some media types do consider their applicability over multiple protocols, for example: http://amundsen.com/blog/archives/1151 http://amundsen.com/blog/archives/1151