Posted by Leeteq on September 18, 2014 at 8:45pm
I suggest posting the following links in a "Resources" bullet-list at the end of the description on the front page of this group.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representational_state_transfer
Building Web Services the REST Way
http://www.xfront.com/REST-Web-Services.html
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8493438/what-are-restful-web-services...
Plus actually also the already-linked initiative page, with a title that indicates that it is not only a roadmap post, but also includes useful introduction info:
http://www.garfieldtech.com/blog/web-services-initiative