 for cross-cutting product and design decisions.</p><p>TOC members are elected by the Steering Committee from the <a href=https://github.com/istio/community/blob/master/WORKING-GROUPS.md#working-group-leads>working group leads</a>, and last week we voted for two new members:</p><ul><li><strong><a href=http://github.com/howardjohn>John Howard</a></strong>, from Google, has become one of the most active contributors to Istio since joining the project in January 2019. He is currently a lead in the Networking w