Did I miss something in what you are flagging? This is not a contradiction. REST design is not dependent on being implemented in HTTP -- REST can be achieved with any transport.

Alan

On Mar 24, 2015, at 8:04 AM, Stanik, Alexander <alexander.stanik@tu-berlin.de> wrote:

- In the first sentence OCCI is defined as RESTful Protocol, but the text behind the second bullet says that the Core Model is HTTP independent. I think it would be very beneficial to keep the core model HTTP independent, which is also the advantage of having the Redering specifications in separate documents.