this is an Envoy competitor. If my reading is right, they want to jump on the Istio bandwagon (https://istio.io/docs/concepts/what-is-istio/overview.html https:

this is an Envoy competitor. If my reading is right, they want to jump on the Istio bandwagon (https://istio.io/docs/concepts/what-is-istio/overview.html https://istio.io/docs/concepts/what-is-istio/overview.html) as another data plane option.