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by vasilvv 576 days ago
W3C generally requires Working Group participants to provide IPR licensing commitments for the spec in question [0]. As far as I understand, higher level of specification maturity implies stronger level of obligations, though the specifics of what specifically changes when were never clear to me.

[0] https://www.w3.org/policies/patent-policy/#sec-Requirements