 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 partners create services on top of the project, and it enables developers to create 