It would be nice if we had some commands to interface directly with the raw DHT data. something like:

ipfs get <somehash>

And have it return the raw data from doing a database or bitswap query for that block.
In the same vein of thinking, I would also like to make ipfs add be able to accept input data from standard in so we could do something like: echo 'hello world' | ipfs add and have it create an object for that.
@jbenet What do you think as far as semantics?