I'm also under the impression that the crates.io team was somewhat reluctant to implement this because it was viewed as a potential security risk from a social

I'm also under the impression that the crates.io team was somewhat reluctant to implement this because it was viewed as a potential security risk from a social engineering point-of-view, even if there were people dedicated to it full time. That said, I'm having a hard time finding the Rust Internals discussion thread, so I can't tell if I'm misremembering somehow. Edit: Actually, I think this was in context of re-assigning crate names that may have been "squatted", and how making decisions around what amounted to team member's arbitrary decisions around re-assignment could cause issues. Scratch this, please.