Ordering of primary data and to-many relationship linkage objects

hhware · hhware · commit b6564612e580 · 2015-03-15T22:38:41.000-05:00
diff --git a/format/index.md b/format/index.md
@@ -819,6 +819,13 @@ The above example should return the newest articles first. Any articles
 created on the same date will then be sorted by their title in ascending
 alphabetical order.
 
+If sorting of the primary data is requested via request parameter `sort`,
+the server **MUST** return elements of the top-level `data` array of the 
+response ordered accordingly to the criteria specified. The server **MAY** 
+apply default sorting rules to top-level `data` if request parameter `sort` 
+is not specified. The server **MAY** apply ordering to members of to-many 
+relationship linkage arrays.
+
 ### Pagination <a href="#fetching-pagination" id="fetching-pagination" class="headerlink"></a>
 
 A server **MAY** choose to limit the number of resources returned in a response
