Link to Roy Fielding versioning interview.

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Versioning is determined by the incoming client request, and may either be based on the request URL, or based on the request headers.
There are a number of valid approaches to approaching versioning. [Non-versioned systems can also be appropriate][roy-fielding-on-versioning], particularly if you're engineering for very long-term systems with multiple clients outside of your control.
## Versioning with REST framework
When API versioning is enabled, the `request.version` attribute will contain a string that corresponds to the version requested in the incoming client request.
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If your versioning scheme is based on the request URL, you will also want to alter how versioned URLs are determined. In order to do so you should override the `.reverse()` method on the class. See the source code for examples.
[cite]: http://www.slideshare.net/evolve_conference/201308-fielding-evolve/31
[roy-fielding-on-versioning]: http://www.infoq.com/articles/roy-fielding-on-versioning
[klabnik-guidelines]: http://blog.steveklabnik.com/posts/2011-07-03-nobody-understands-rest-or-http#i_want_my_api_to_be_versioned
[heroku-guidelines]: https://github.com/interagent/http-api-design#version-with-accepts-header
[json-parameters]: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4627#section-6