In all honesty I was hoping Google leadership would come to see this as being in everyone's interest. I'm reasonably comfortable with a vendor-centric mechanism

In all honesty I was hoping Google leadership would come to see this as being in everyone's interest. I'm reasonably comfortable with a vendor-centric mechanism at this point, but I'd be just as comfortable with the CNCF. It's a mature body and widely trusted. Or the CFF, for that matter. (I am speaking solely on my own behalf.)