IBM has responded to this development publicly since it includes Istio -- which is a joint project between the companies and apparently was agreed to be contrib

IBM has responded to this development publicly since it includes Istio -- which is a joint project between the companies and apparently was agreed to be contributed to CNCF at maturity: https://developer.ibm.com/components/istio/blogs/istio-google-open-usage-commons/ https://developer.ibm.com/components/istio/blogs/istio-googl...