OGC web services have no uniform interface, and therefore are not well suited for RESTful architectures. That's the why not. A uniform interface is the core tenet of REST. Ron Lake has a comment here.
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1Re: Why There is no REST in WxS
Bill Thorp, 2007-07-18T14:09:45Z