Why does it take so long to finalize the HTML 5 spec?

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Published on 2010-12-30T16:44:01Z Indexed on 2010/12/30 16:59 UTC
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I was reading this and one sentence caught my eye (emphasis mine):

So Ian Hickson, XHTML’s biggest critic, fathered HTML 5, an action-oriented toddler specification that won’t reach adulthood until 2022, although some of it can be used today.

Is that true? Is that really the HTML 5 development cycle? Why is it taking so long? What makes it so difficult to get right that it won't be final until 11 years from now?

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