Greetings:
This whole debacle with Parse::PlainConfig opens up a few questions about the
integrity of CPAN. If I am to believe brian's assertion that I proceeded with
the module with *any* consensus at all, why was I allowed to upload it?
Allowing authors to upload willy-nilly could potentially cause namespace
conflicts, could it not?
In other words, what's to stop a mistaken or malicious upload of a module
whose namespace violates sanctioned and allocated namespace?
I've never attempted to upload anything until I had (or thought I had) the
group's authorisation to do so. I have to think that if I was prevented from
uploading modules outside of the namespace I was already granted that would
have made the lack of consensus a tad more obvious.
So, is there a potential security problem here?
--Arthur Corliss
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