http://lists.whatwg.org/htdig.cgi/whatwg-whatwg.org/2004-July/001200.html
Anyway in the current spec, the optgroup element is not allowed inside another optgroup element:
http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-optgroup-elementHas this been removed again since 2004? I did not find more on this in the list archives.
-- Markus