Actually we do validate several aspects of things being published to Central and always have. There have been many other repos that have come and gone over the

Actually we do validate several aspects of things being published to Central and always have. There have been many other repos that have come and gone over the years, many of them without the same standards and it ultimately creates a federated tragedy of the commons. More about the history here https://blog.sonatype.com/why-namespacing-matters-in-public-open-source-repositories https://blog.sonatype.com/why-namespacing-matters-in-public-...