Actually I thought his whole argument was down to "REST isn't a protocol the way HTTP is a protocol" -- look the "P" stands for "protocol" -- which (a) is true

Actually I thought his whole argument was down to "REST isn't a protocol the way HTTP is a protocol" -- look the "P" stands for "protocol" -- which (a) is true in some specific technical sense, and (b) isn't important. I quote: "This style has no agreed protocol." and "The core missing pieces of any RESTful web service protocol are agreed standards on media type and link metadata." OK, so what?