GIS Community Blocks Esri's Geospatial 'Open Standard' REST API

Bismillah writes "The developer of ArcGIS, Esri, has dropped its bid to have the GeoServices REST API recognized as an open standard by the Open Geospatial Consortium, after a community backlash against 'providing a vendor with significant market advantage, erring on the creation of a state-sanctioned monopoly.'"

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is it even RESTful?

[UnanimousCoward]

In taking a quick look a the standard, it doesn't even look RESTful. For example:

http://<mapservice-url>/layers

Returns deep copies of all layers and tables as opposed to a list of IDs. Then:

http://<featureservice-url>/<layerId>

Returns a deep copy of a particular layer/table.

How about http://<something>/layers returning a list of layers/tables and http://<something>/layers/{id} returning the particular table/layer? The whole /object and /object/{id} paradigm is missing. And that's just about GET. Regardless 800-lbs gorilla arguments against this "standard," I'd be more inclined to reject it due to its lack of adherence to standards.