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).
To use WCF as WCF Rest service you have to enable webHttpBindings. It support HTTP GET and POST verbs by [WebGet] and [WebInvoke] attributes respectively. To enable other HTTP verbs you have to do some configuration in IIS to accept request of that particular verb on .svc files.