Re: [proposals] Interest Based Advertising with the Topics API (#4)

Without expressing an opinion whether PATCG should work on Topics AP long-term, a few points from a W3C team legal perspective: 
* The [W3C Community CLA](https://www.w3.org/community/about/process/cla/) provides a framework for contribution commitments in a CG. While it doesn't mandate where that CG's work is done, some practices such as the group-participant [IPR-checker](https://github.com/w3c/ash-nazg) are facilitated by connecting repositories to the CG. 
* Similarly, some organizations' legal review is facilitated by grouping work, even preliminary work, in one CG
* W3C wants to provide fora for both incubation and specification, where the incubation process may lead down dead ends before finding the path to consensus. We try to reduce the barriers to starting incubation work (open to the public, lightweight CG process) to give ideas and their proponents opportunity for an early hearing and iterative development before sending them to a WG for spec development.

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