My only concern is if the app wants the value immediately. I don't want to have to make a separate GET after receiving a VALUE url to get the info. I understand why this is useful if I'm passing it along, but what if I'm not?
I'm just thinking that if the server was configured to respond with the /value/ reference and then immediately follow that up with the resource, your client doesn't really have much say in how noisy the conversation is over the wire.