[pgeorgi]

There precedence: https://www.powermapper.com/blog/web-standards-implementatio... says draft spec, then candidate recommendation (unstable), then 2 independent implementations, then recommendation (== spec in w3c terms)

It's still in their docs, too: https://www.w3.org/2023/Process-20231103/#implementation-exp... "are implementations publicly deployed?"

[troupo]

"Implementations publicly deployed" is widely understood as "released behind a flag to gather feedback and work out issues", not "release without a workable spec"