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by gsnedders 2583 days ago
> There is no way in the W3C to say "I sign over my IPR rights" without also paying thousands of dollars per year.

Or, as you mention up-thread, get invited into the group by the chairs and with consent of the W3C staff. Which… is an opaque process, and totally non-obvious to an outsider.