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 

Change this to a different namespace.  Using the same default value in multiple places makes it hard to tell what's going on.