Abstract: The Namespace Management System comprises a run-time configurable state information management system that evaluates a request within a semantic domain defined by the state information at a given moment in time. The Namespace Management System comprises a Namespace Management application, executing on a computer system that is connected to the Internet or other Autonomous System. The Namespace Management System is programmatically and dynamically configurable to take part in and administer a multiplicity of namespaces, each of which contains listings, data, and services or other state information required to satisfy a request and/or interact with callable services. A multiplicity of Namespace Management Systems can register services, provide services, discover services, communicate with services, and participate in one or more dynamic network namespaces, with each Namespace Management System having at least one associated dynamic network namespace listing.