By "be frozen" he didn't mean "Google will declare it to be unchangeable", he meant "users relying on it will prevent any of us from being able to change it."
And that's only a problem because Google decided to ship it now, RIGHT NOW instead of caring about the standards process and maybe holding off for a little bit.
Maybe, but "We want to ship now!" is a VERY different statement than "We want to lock in the API now and refuse to change it later!". I have a great deal of sympathy for the first one.
And that's only a problem because Google decided to ship it now, RIGHT NOW instead of caring about the standards process and maybe holding off for a little bit.
Nobody dies if Google ships a little bit later.