The schemes have to be brought into current use, so that names can be exchanged freely betweern users and applications without a tower of Babel mixture of syntaxes.
There seem two ways to achieve consensus. One is to use a standardisation process such as that of the IETF or ISO. The other is to produce a system which will be so popular as to carry a particular syntax to become the de facto standard.
The World-Wide Web team is trying both approaches concurrently, through the IETF and by wide-scale use in the web.
Having finished our tour of what we need in a name, let's look at how some existing protocols measure up, and then at some ideas for something better.
(up to naming and addressing)
Tim BL