Yes, I know about this model but it wasn&#x27;t made by Fielding and he made his positions pretty clear about what&#x27;s RESTful and what&#x27;s not.<p>I do agree that this model is a good set of steps to build better APIs but then, how do you call them? RESTful Level 1 API?<p>My point with this article is just to call API what they are (usually just HTTP APIs). I&#x27;m totally against the use of the REST buzzword these days since it doesn&#x27;t mean much anymore: everyone has a different view on it.