"could be tasked with the drudgery of intervening in naming disputes or managing an identity layer" What do these have to do with the issue of namespaces? Hav

"could be tasked with the drudgery of intervening in naming disputes or managing an identity layer" What do these have to do with the issue of namespaces? Having namespaces would lessen naming disputes since users would be able to name their crate whatever. Any system will have disputes, so I'm not sure what the argument is here. I understand why crates uses github for identity management, but it's not ideal that people are locked into using one specific git platform. Github is already an unavoidable entity, much like facebook, but this is a bit of a harder issue to solve without a lot more resources.