Usage Commons is focused on project trademarks; it does not address other facets of an open project, like rules around who gets decision-making votes. Similar to many projects in their early days, Istio’s committees started as small groups that stemmed from the founding companies. But Istio has grown and matured (last year Istio was <a href=https://octoverse.github.com/#fastest-growing-oss-projects-by-contributors>#4 on GitHub&rsquo;s list of fastest growing open source projects!</a>), and it is time for 