Using REST seems silly. Or rather, not necessarily silly, but not very significant, either. Bray himself admits that using REST + JSON was basically arbitrary:

Using REST seems silly. Or rather, not necessarily silly, but not very significant, either. Bray himself admits that using REST + JSON was basically arbitrary: Simply because we wanted a bits-on-the-wire interface. APIs, in the general case, suck; and are really hard to make portable. Bits-on-the-wire are ultimately flexible and interoperable. If you’re going to do bits-on-the-wire, Why not use HTTP? And if you’re going to use HTTP, use it right. That’s all.