is a new organization that is focused solely on providing management and guidance of open source project trademarks in a way that is aligned with the <a href=https://opensource.org/osd>Open Source Definition</a>. For projects, particularly projects with robust ecosystems like Istio, ensuring that the trademark is available to anyone who is using the software in accordance with the license is important. The trademark allows maintainers to grow a community and use the name to do so. It also lets ecosystem par