This sort of reminds me of certificate authorities. A certificate authority is just a list of edges in this sense, and you inherently trust what the CA says are

This sort of reminds me of certificate authorities. A certificate authority is just a list of edges in this sense, and you inherently trust what the CA says are valid edges. (with some cryptography magic to verify it's really on the CA's list) You could make everyone their own "naming authority", so you could trust anyone's list if you choose to, but I would also bet we'd end up with a similar situation, where someone compiles the most names, and becomes a great default to use, so people don't spend much time cleaning up their own data, and things sort of naturally centralize.