Tilting at Windmills
Damien Katz: "The web is built on REST. Therefore REST is good" Bullshit
I’m not sure what the purpose is behind creating a strawman based on a caricature of what some people view as best practices and then proceeding to shoot it down.
RFC 2068 was published in June of 1999. Roy’s Dissertation was published in 2000.
$ curl -s http://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pubs/dissertation/rest_arch_style.htm | grep -i delete | wc -l 0
Update: Leonard Richardson demonstrates the dogma-free approach to the subject that you will find in RESTful Web Services.