ing</a> to Istio.</p><h2 id=background>Background</h2><p>The journey has taken us longer than anticipated and we continue to have work to do. The team initially started with a design based
on a reference implementation from F5. The design led to an <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oT6pmRhOw7AtsldU0-HbfA0zA26j9LYiBD_eepeErsQ/edit?usp=sharing">RFC</a> that caused us to re-examine our approach. Notably, there were concerns about memory and performance issues that the community wanted
to be addresse