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Last year Leonard Richardson gave a talk on QCon that included a maturity model for RESTful web services. The model is a good way to sneak up on understanding REST principles and the authors of REST in Practice are using it to help their discussion of how to use REST. Here’s my take on explaining the model, which I found helpful in my understanding of what makes REST tick:

Richardson Maturity Model: steps toward the glory of REST