General

This topic document serves to provide guidance on general topics of style and approaches to developing and managing public HTTP APIs.

Guidelines

  1. While every public API should have a canonical client implementation we should discourage tight bindings between an API and its clients and strongly encourage separate evolution of the API and its official client. We welcome any effort aimed at developing and promoting alternative clients. A diversity of implementations is healthy and enables use in many environments.

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