open governance, ensuring that the community around the project will always be able to steer its direction, and that no one company has majority voting control over the project.</p><p>The Istio Steering Committee oversees the administrative aspects of the project and sets the marketing direction. From the earliest days of the project, it was bootstrapped with members from Google and IBM, the two founders and largest contributors, with the explicit intention that other seats would be added. We are very happy