Survey of organizational ownership and registry namespace designs for Cargo and Crates.io

[epage]

Cross-posting as this ties into the use cases:

@skade

Well, so. I probably hit a lot of cases in this, so @epage happy to be interviewed in the implementation.

Independent of namespacing implementation, we have:

• A company name (company names are trademark like) that has a community-wide nickname (ferrous-systems, ferrous)
• A trademark for a bigger product that we want to keep "closed" (ferrocene), we do not want someone to publish under that name.
• We maintain some projects that we are responsible for, but where the name is "open" (e.g. "defmt", where a third party example publishing "defmt-my_funny_testsuite" is totally encouraged). Any negative stuff happening on that front would probably violate crates.io policy and does not need any special care.

So, as an org, we at least have a 1-N relationship to namespaces.