[WICG/webcomponents] [scoped-registries] Interaction with declarative shadow DOM (#914)

We need to specify how scoped custom element registries interact with declarative shadow DOM.

The fundamental behavior we need is for a declarative shadow root to _not_ use the global registry when it's going to be used with a scoped registry once its host is defined. Then we need the host to be able to assign a scoped registry to a shadow root that's already been created.

This is accomplishable with an [attribute](https://github.com/mfreed7/declarative-shadow-dom/blob/master/README.md#additional-arguments-for-attachshadow) that maps to an `attachShadow()` option to opt-out of the global registry, without yet having a scoped registry to use. In `attachShadow()` options, we can allow `registry` to be undefined. In declarative shadow DOM, we can introduce an attribute, like `shadowrootregistry`:

```
<template shadowroot="open" shadowrootregistry="">
  <some-scoped-element></some-scoped-element>
</template>
```

Next, we need to be able to add the ability for a scoped registry to be set on an existing ShadowRoot. Possibly like:

```ts

const registry = new CustomElementRegistry();

class extends HTMLElement {
    #internals = null;
    constructor() {
      super();
      this.#internals = this.attachInternals();
      if (this.#internals.shadowRoot) {
        this.#internals.shadowRoot.registry = registry;
      } else {
        this.attachShadow({mode: 'open', registry});
      }
    }
 }
```

This means we need to clarify whether the registry can change over time, or whether it can only be set on declarative shadow roots that have been opted out of the global registry. A registry changing over time is something that has also come up in https://github.com/WICG/webcomponents/issues/907 (moving shadow roots between documents).

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