Web Things, by Mark Baker

As previously suspected, it seems WS-Transfer is missing POST because of an attempt to limit it to CRUD semantics. From the latest MS whitepaper;

A factory is a Web service that can create a resource from its XML representation. WS-Transfer introduces operations that create, update, retrieve and delete resources.

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