Here's a refresher for those who missed it: https://docs.google.com/a/chromium.org/document/d/1cxW4MtsDb...
If it's ready to ship with nobody else agreeing on how it should work, please do everyone a favor and ship it with a prefix. If only as a courtesy to fellow developers who will need to deal with this mess. Nevermind that you don't want a prefix. Use one.
Better prefix hell than different implementations using the same syntax.
Maybe cat/hat Shadow DOM depends on some C lib that causes incompatibility with a lib you use, which means you'll have integration problems.
Being open source has never been an excuse to break the standards process. It's disheartening to see open source being used to justify this behavior again (first with PNaCl, now this).
> it'll be other vendors' pain as they have to reverse engineer Blink's implementation
Which was the salient point I was replying to. Quoting out of context to imply I made statements I did not is...disheartening.