Five years ago, the Open Container Initiative (OCI) was formed under the Linux Foundation to provide vendor-neutral open governance standards for container runtimes and image formats. This has fueled cloud-native innovation and has led the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) to where it is today. In this talk, we will highlight some of the critical decision points in OCI's evolution and forecast how Red Hat is collaborating with and empowering the OCI and CNCF communities.