Doesn't .gov do a bit of that already? Part of the problem is, no one knows who's really working on what. If you asked some of the most knowledgeable people in

Doesn't .gov do a bit of that already? Part of the problem is, no one knows who's really working on what. If you asked some of the most knowledgeable people in the GNU/Linux ecosystem who maintained xz before last week, there's a real chance they couldn't have told you, not without some investigating first. And that would only have gotten them a name, not the maintainer's personality, resources situation, etc. There needs to be a census of sorts over the stuff that goes into the GNU/Linux ecosystem to see who needs what.