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pan69 on Jan 2, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: Proposed simple REST (and OAuth) based standard fo...

Just playing devils advocate here; This is another one of those standards that assumes the whole world speaks English.

gojomo on Jan 2, 2010 [–]

How does this assume English any more than the other protocols, HTTP and OAuth, on which it is based?

And, isn't that level of assumption a good thing for comprehension and interoperability?

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