One of the main justifications for inventing the Rust Foundation was to have a good place to own Rust's trademarks, which were previously owned by Mozilla.
The foundation is now nine months old, but I don't see any announcement on its website saying that the trademarks have been transferred.
The Rust website [1] says that the Rust trademark is still owned by the Mozilla Foundation.
The README in Rust's git repository [2] says it's owned by the Rust Foundation.
I am distinctly unimpressed by the foundation's communication skills so far.
I can't speak to the foundation's performance or communication, but the purpose is more than holding its trademarks; it's for holding any/all assets for the organization. I thought the main catalyst for the rust foundation was there being many people/organizations which wanted to donate/fund development of rust but no means for handling the money (responsibly).
Well AFAICT the foundation isn't funding any developers at the moment, either. I remember from the discussions that was always a far-off goal. Though it probably does make it easier to coordinate donating hardware resources.
Well, that may mean that none of the Rust Foundation sponsors have managed to pull off an insider gambit to obtain a trademark licensing deal which unduly advantages them! :) (e.g. control over a canonical domain, official conference, etc.)
However, it can also mean that nobody's minding the store, allowing some company to establish a mark in practice which will be difficult to take back later. (This has happened multiple times with ASF projects: CouchDB and CouchBase, Mesos and Mesosphere...)
The last minutes they have published was for the May meeting [0], and there have even been talk about making the release of the minutes faster in some of the ones that are published.
The foundation is now nine months old, but I don't see any announcement on its website saying that the trademarks have been transferred.
The Rust website [1] says that the Rust trademark is still owned by the Mozilla Foundation.
The README in Rust's git repository [2] says it's owned by the Rust Foundation.
I am distinctly unimpressed by the foundation's communication skills so far.
[1] https://www.rust-lang.org/policies/media-guide [2] https://github.com/rust-lang/rust