Information hiding?

"Eric J. Bowman" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.services.rest
Organization Bison Systems Corporation
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
From REST, 5.2.1:

"allows information hiding through a generic interface"

I took a stab at a precise definition of "information hiding" but struck
out.  What information is hidden from whom?  Anyone?

-Eric
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