This is a great article, Jon; I have to stop and think about these things all the time. How do you feel about the fact that in certain cases, when enough people use a word incorrectly for a long enough period of time, the incorrect usage becomes accepted as correct? I know diehards rail against this.
The transport channel is the bottom-most channel of the WCF stack. The protocols that are typically used in this channel are HTTP, TCP, MSMQ, and named pipes, but WCF allows application developers to use other transports as well, such as Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) or File Transfer Protocol (FTP).
Implements the host used by the Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) service model programming model. Use the class to configure and expose a service for use by client applications when you are not using Internet Information Services (IIS) or Windows Activation Services (WAS) to expose a service. Both IIS and WAS interact with a object on your behalf.