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That's non-trivial to implement; it seems to me that a conscious decision by the miners/pools to support or not support is less work and safer.
Luke proposed something similar earlier, though; I'm surprised his patches don't implement it.
I like whoever proposed that the string in the coinbase refer to the BIP, in the future that's the way it should be done.
RE: schedules:
Deadlines, as we've just seen, have a way of focusing attention. OP_EVAL got, essentially, zero review/testing (aside from my own) until a month before the deadline.
It seems to me one-to-two months is about the right amount of time to get thorough review and testing of this type of backwards-compatible change. Longer deadlines just mean people get busy working on other things and ignore the issue.