Right, and I guess it was also done that way (reversed domain name followed by different suffixes for the leaf names for the actual packages) so that it would b

Right, and I guess it was also done that way (reversed domain name followed by different suffixes for the leaf names for the actual packages) so that it would be easier to see at a glance that some packages were from the same (reversed) domain, indicating from the same creator. E.g. com.sun.java.foo com.sun.java.bar com.ibm.foo2 com.ibm.bar2 etc.