route namespace

design notes for #850

I estimate completing the implementation will take half a day.


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UPDATE (from Adam): This took over a day to change it from design to implementation, including hours of pairing, but the estimate was for Jean-Paul alone and I'm slower. There are also a few TODOs with questions about how to continue.

Fixes #850 

We don't want minor changes to implementation to change the logging; someone who is debugging can recreate the marker based on code, so no need to include whole comment.