HTML5 is a huge, gargantuan, monolithic spec. It will take more than a "couple years" to get two compatible implementations of each part of the spec, and a full test suite.
They would be much better off splitting it into smaller segments that can go through the recommendation process at their own pace. Some parts would be pretty close today while others need a lot of work.
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