Taxonomy should work more like nodes

This is intended as a proposal for a slight change in the way taxonomy works on Drupal. At current there are two main ways of categorising nodes, that is:

• Taxonomy
• Node reference parent/child

I would like to propose a middle-ground solution, where taxonomies behave more like nodes. This means, for example, that taxonomy terms could have CCK fields attached to them. This would be advantageous, if, say, you wanted an icon for each term- this could then be achieved without a specific change to the database scheme (as achieved using Taxonomy Image). You could also use such properties for an infinite number of other possibilities with a bit of coding.

In addition, this might make it easier to configure permissions for taxonomies, which is currently still a bit unclear when combined with other node based permissions modules, so this is something that might be resolved by closing the gap.

This might seem a bit silly but it's just a thought.