There is a different sandbox logo, and projects are required to explicitly say they are sandbox whenever they mention that they are CNCF projects. The staff are pretty good at chasing up if folks repo

A little history: the current process was supposed to be super-lightweight, to reflect the very, very low bar for Sandbox projects - essentially, is it cloud native. I don’t remember the exact number

For point 3, we've had similar situations in other projects - OpenTelemetry comes to mind - with different levels of maturity in sub-components / sub-projects. What previous incarnations of the TOC re

+1 NB