Yes, we agree. What I meant is I'd have a verb that creates and returns some kind of "ReportContext" object, which sends back an "id" which I can then query status of later, for example. But no REST.

My point is that the entire endpoint would be mostly verbs (like runReports) and use only the HTTP POST to communicate. So I'm "ignoring" the fact that it's running over HTTP, I would ignore every "rule" of REST, because REST offers nothing but hurdles to jump over.