RSS has no verbs
Mark Baker: Ok, so let me get it all out, and describe what I believe - and what I don't - about REST and SOAP
Excellent. Organized roughly from least controversial to most controversial. I agree with more than half of this list. This means that there is much common ground.
Rather than dwelling on details, what I believe is that the Internet is a good first order approximation of truly scalable systems. What it got right was a focus on data vs code. If anything, it has too many methods.
IMHO, the model of the future is going to be more closely based on events and alerts than on request/response. Applications will simply know to construct a given configuration of molecules when they receive a given stimulous. They won't necessarily even be aware of who the intended recipient of such "requests" is.
InfoPath is an example of what can be done by tools that simply know how to construct data according to a given specification, without any greater knowledge of semantics or verbs.