While analyzing the new Link & Linking proposal I went back to where we started and tried to see what benefits the proposal would have. Except for link attributes through link specialisation I failed to see any real benefits. I mean it is indeed tempting to say that a Link is a REST resource and therefore we can apply CRUD (POST/GET/PUT/DELETE) operations directly on links. But why would we want to do that? A link is not very useful on its own and what is it we cannot do with the simpler approach? Based on this reasoning I wrote up "another proposal" and added to the Link & Linking wiki page [1]. It is indeed very simple (but I like simple!) and I believe it can do all things we realistically would want to do with the Fat Link approach. I am very much looking forward to your comments. regards, Ralf [1] http://forge.ogf.org/sf/wiki/do/viewPage/projects.occi-wg/wiki/Link