The implementation on this has started.
Something to keep in mind is https://blog.m-ou.se/rust-is-not-a-company/. Rust is mostly driven by volunteers working on what they find interesting. Boring/uninteresting tasks depend on funding, a warm body to accept the funding, and a reviewer.
Crates.io and Cargo need namespaces, but the leadership flatly says no.
There's a big problem with name squatting, and nothing is being done about this either.
I get that there are more technically important issues around builds and reproducibility and the like, but this is pretty foundational stuff.
They are favorable to crate-name-as-namespace (so that once you have the tokio crate you can use tokio as a namespace) and there's ongoing work on that. But as said above, it takes work to implement.
There's no desire for other meaning of the word "namespace" because famously nobody ever made a well-reasoned proposal (despite the amount of social media outrage over the lack of namespace).
This isn't a particularly difficult problem, and other package ecosystems have solved it many times in the past.
https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/survey-of-organizational-o... is a start in just collecting existing knowledge in one place.
That's not true at all. They changed the policy a few years ago to disallow squatting and you can report a package as not doing anything, at which point they'll send the author an email with a deadline to respond, with the plan to remove the crate if there's no change. I actually had this happen firsthand from a package name I had claimed in the early days, forgotten about, and then gotten this email about several months back:
> Jan 29, 2026, 19:25 UTC
> Hi saghm, I'm a member of the crates.io support team, and I'm writing in regards to your pal crate.
> Our policies have changed, and we now disallow crates that have no functionality. The pal crate was reported to us as violating this policy.
> Are you still using this crate name? If so, please reply-all and let us know by February 12, 2026. If we don't hear back from you by that date, we will be removing this crate.
> The rest of your crates are fine and will NOT be removed.
(I responded back immediately to confirm I wasn't using the crate and hadn't been aware of the policy change, so they could take action immediately without needing to wait until the deadline)
