Alan, partly this is just a qusioetn of naming, but then a difference in naming can lead to a difference in thinking.As Ian points out above, it is more about binding actions to resources (models) rather than to controllers and of removing (or limiting) the need for routing. You say The Controller is there to bind the system to HTTP , but I feel that there should be no need for any binding as long as we work with HTTP to begin with rather than forcing our ways upon it.