I agree with everything you've said. I intentionally did not separate "protocol" from "binding" in this deck. I wanted to take more of a pragmatic approach an

I agree with everything you've said. I intentionally did not separate "protocol" from "binding" in this deck. I wanted to take more of a pragmatic approach and less of an academic approach. In practice, REST is most often implemented on HTTP. Because devs can relate to HTTP, I coupled protocol and binding to keep things simple.