(Danno) The project should have multiple maintainers
- These maintainers need not be from different companies
  - However, having maintainers from different companies is seen as a positive sign (Hart)
- Proposals with only one maintainer have been rejected by prior TSCs.

Legal

(Tracy) Trademark concerns – project names should not be trademarked by a contributing company or if it is, then the trademark will need to be handed over to Hyperledger.

Overlap with Existing Projects

(Tracy) The TSC has mentioned that they are not interested in bringing in additional distributed ledger projects. There should be a distinct advantage for a new distributed ledger project.
(Tracy) Based on the HIP template, dependent project's maintainers must sign off on the proposal before it is considered by the TSC.