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"To maintain the upper-boundary encapsulation, the following scoping constraints must apply to all nodes in a shadow tree:" All of this already follows from the the fact that shadow trees are separate from the document.
*** Bug 19918 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 20243 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
This looks obsolete for the current spec. Closing.