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The "prototype construction algorithm" takes a bag of properties and produces a prototype, however Document.register and the custom element constructor generation algorithm work in terms of prototypes. So it is not clear what the purpose of the prototype construction algorithm is.
http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/webcomponents/rev/923f896601ad