-> You need to take into account the reward halving, likely to be in 3Q2016. Forks and reward halving at the same time would possibly be a bad combination. -> The original proposed date for the fork was December 2015. It was pushed back to January as December is a busy period for a lot of people and businesses. Likewise, June is a busy period for people. July / August is a good period as it is quiet because people go on holiday. A window of 2 months during holiday periods is better than starting in June. January 2016 is better, mainly because of the excessive reward halving chatter likely to be going on.. .. > Proposal (parameters in ** are my recommendations but negotiable): > > 1. Today, we all agree that some kind of block size hardfork will happen > on t1=*1 June 2016* > > 2. If no other consensus could be reached before t2=*1 Feb 2016*, we will > adopt the backup plan > > 3. The backup plan is: t3=*30 days* after m=*80%* of miner approval, but > not before t1=*1 June 2016*, the block size is increased to s=*1.5MB* > > 4. If the backup plan is adopted, we all agree that a better solution > should be found before t4=*31 Dec 2017*. > ..