This is the same position Mark Nottingham (http://www.mnot.net/personal/) takes and expresses in his talk "Leveraging the Web for Services at Yahoo!"(http://www.infoq.com/presentations/services-without-soap-yah...).

However, Mark created a service called "Is It RESTful?" (http://isitrestful.com/) to deal with all the engineers asking him that question :)