I am posting this here because I am unable to register on the Namecoin forums because the OpenID login system, and user registration email activation is broken; and because the Wiki does not allow regular users to create new pages, and because no one in irc://freenode.com#namecoin has responded in a week to my requests for assistance.

I am proposing and would like to receive feedback on a new name type p/ for product identification.

The purpose of this is to store the names, publishing (or producing entities), and other meta data for products.
This is similar to the id/ specification, but specialized for product information; and could be very useful for authenticable software metadata such as version numbers and hashes and binary locations.

Here is a sample json format for an example product p/meowbit :

Code:

{
  "name": "MeowBit, the all-browser Anti-Censorship, Anti-Hijacking Dot-Bit Free Software for Windows.",
  "url": [
    "http://meowbit.com",
    "http://meowbit.bit"
  ],
  "signer": "MxYgCsHV7Nx4zMLQjHwRY7XzenU8AVAbuw",
  "producer": "id/beastlick",
  "author": "id/derrick",
  "version": "0.3.5179.694",
  "dist": [
    {
      "os": "w",
      "type": "i",
      "file": "MeowBitSetup_0.3.exe",
      "hash": {
        "md5": "c0c996249d49a5808e245564996eb3c0"
      }
    },
    {
      "type": "s",
      "file": "MeowBit_Src.zip",
      "hash": {
        "md5": "e4d909c290d0fb1ca068ffaddf22cbd0"
      }
    }
  ]
}

If there is interest in this I would like to participate in further specification and simplification of the information, and improve consistency with other specifications.