Building Blocks for HTTP APIs: An Introduction to Web Concepts

Web concepts is a CC-licensed open site that can be reused and forked by anybody. This means that is can be used to create subsets, and/or that "proprietary standards" can be added. By doing this, anybody can use Web concepts as their starting point to define their foundation for the APIs they are building. For example, API guidelines can be accompanied by a version of Web concepts that represents the standards that an organization wants to build their APIs on.