Sooner or later, we or the new generation of ietfers and nanogers, will need to
start thinking about a new naming paradigm and design the services and protocols
associated with it.
The key question is, when we start?
Read "Patterns in Network Architecture" by John Day.
"A Return to Fundamentals", great book.
"the Internet today is more like DOS, but what we need should be more like Unix"
Great thing he didn't say Windows 
Cheers