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-------------

Any package repository that allows for the creation of projects (e.g.
non-mirrors) MAY offer the concept of `organizations`__. Organizations
are entities that own projects and have various users associated with them.

__ https://blog.pypi.org/posts/2023-04-23-introducing-pypi-organizations/
non-mirrors) MAY offer the concept of organizations [6]_. Organizations are
entities that own projects and have various users associated with them.

Organizations MAY reserve one or more namespaces. Such reservations neither
confer ownership nor grant special privileges to existing projects.
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Uploads
-------

If the following criteria are all true for a given upload:
If the name of a package being uploaded matches a reserved namespace and either
of the following criteria are true:

1. The project does not yet exist.
2. The name matches a reserved namespace.
3. The project is not owned by an organization with an active grant for the
namespace.
* The project does not yet exist.
* The project is not owned by an organization with an active grant for the
namespace.

Then the upload MUST fail with a 403 HTTP status code.

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Rejected Ideas
==============

Granting reservations to users
------------------------------

As package repositories have a flat namespace, allowing any user to reserve a
namespace would be untenable not just because there would be
`contention for a finite resource`__, but also because no repository has enough
human operators to manage the vetting of an arbitrary number of users.

__ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons

.. _artifact-level-association:

Artifact-level Namespace Association
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.. [5] `Detailed write-up <https://discuss.python.org/t/64679>`__ of the
potential for provenance assertions.

.. [6] As an example, PyPI's concept of organizations is described
`here <https://blog.pypi.org/posts/2023-04-23-introducing-pypi-organizations/>`__.

__ https://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/master/usage/extensions/index.html
__ https://airflow.apache.org/docs/apache-airflow/stable/authoring-and-scheduling/plugins.html
__ https://airflow.apache.org/docs/apache-airflow-providers/index.html
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