I also have a CIP in the works (Stake URI scheme for pools & delegation portfolios) addressing the same overall problem, which has been falling on dead air. This is how I phrased that vulnerability, as a summary of how a bunch of highly qualified nobodies in the Cardano ecosystem see the problem on the horizon:
I’d like to contribute more to the practical discussion, but generally cannot since @shawnim has already said everything that I would have said. I can only try to summarise the feelings of hundreds of people who are either too intimated or too preoccupied with the social melee to voice themselves here.
I’m astonished that there aren’t more SPOs submitting +1’s about this proposal. This is one of the best conceived efforts to reform the rules of a game that was literally rigged from the beginning. Amazingly, the ones who are most adversely affected think the solution is in video production and social networking: which in the current arrangement is like trying to get a better berth on a sinking ship.
The CIP instructions indicate these comment threads are not only to refine proposals technically but also to assess a proposal’s urgency according to community input. I wish I could bring more people into this discussion to share their concerns about what will happen to Cardano and ADA if the world continues to see Shelley as a media-rich pump & dump that only produced an insincere decentralisation (in the protocol perhaps, but not the ecosystem).
As a bottom ranked SPO who missed the “early winners” snapshot late last year I’ve had a lot of time to see how the ecosystem looks from the absolute bottom. That huge bottom segment that IOHK and Emurgo still consider irrelevant from a “game theoretical” perspective (which other theoreticians might consider a source of resilience, redundancy and future proofing) contains amateurs, imitators, crooks, heroes, experts, and future thought leaders. Not all the inspiration about how a “world financial operating system” might develop is coming from the top. 