While I would like to get some form of explicit acknowledgment from miners that a new rule is in effect, the truth of the matter is we still lack a means to determine whether or not miners are actually enforcing these rules...unless someone happens to mine a block that breaks the new rule. This is a bit frustrating...but that's just how it is.
I should add that hard forks do provide us with a means to determine whether or not miners are enforcing the new rules...but generally speaking they risk far greater disruption if anything fails to go as planned. Between the risk of clients accepting an occasional invalid "confirmation" or two and the risk of a total network partition, the former seems far less serious. I believe the concerns regarding old clients can be remedied to a very large extent by means of a good awareness campaign.
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