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by michielvoo 4998 days ago
Because unlike ASP.NET it can be self-hosted [1]. It wouldn't surprise me if ASP.NET was moved onto System.Web.Http in the future. Because ever since ASP.NET MVC they have been trying to hide the old System.Web under the new System.Web.Abstractions to support unit testing.

1. http://www.asp.net/web-api/overview/hosting-aspnet-web-api/s...