Unlike bitcoin, achieving scalability with forward blocks on tradecraft will require an eventual hard-fork. Thankfully however, forward blocks presents the ideal opportunity for deploying such a thing, as there is a consensus-visible trigger for real demand causing larger shards to create a backlog requiring bigger compatibility chain blocks to clear. However while forward blocks is still being written, every version of freicoin/tradecraft that does not support detection of and acting on this eventual hard-fork is a version that will be incompatible with the trigger of larger compatibility blocks.
Therefore, the responsible thing to do is to deploy the hard-fork in this and future releases of freicoin/tradecraft, to be triggered on a suitably distant date years into the future. Later releases will either push back this date extending the block size rules for additional time (which would be a soft-fork), or implement the real demand-driven detection and switchover logic.
As to the contents of this hard-fork, it will remove most aggregate limits other than block-size, since they become less relevant with the performance enhancements that come with enhancements pulled from upstream, and perform various other navel-gazing fixes. Most critically though it should bump up the maximum block size to the largest value the software is able to support (my guess: 32MB, which would be 128MWe, which means the largest post-segwit block would still fit in a single 128MB blkxxxx.dat file), and completely remove constraints on block difficulty.
Of course the actual fork will be far more constrained, using a flexible cap to slowly ramp up aggregate limits, and with a new, more responsive difficulty adjustment filter. But by simply removing limits or bumping them to the maximum possible after a time-based activation date, these older, pre-forward-blocks clients will still understand the compatibility blocks that are relayed to them, even though they don't know to enforce the more restrictive validation rules.
Unlike bitcoin, achieving scalability with forward blocks on tradecraft will require an eventual hard-fork. Thankfully however, forward blocks presents the ideal opportunity for deploying such a thing, as there is a consensus-visible trigger for real demand causing larger shards to create a backlog requiring bigger compatibility chain blocks to clear. However while forward blocks is still being written, every version of freicoin/tradecraft that does not support detection of and acting on this eventual hard-fork is a version that will be incompatible with the trigger of larger compatibility blocks.
Therefore, the responsible thing to do is to deploy the hard-fork in this and future releases of freicoin/tradecraft, to be triggered on a suitably distant date years into the future. Later releases will either push back this date extending the block size rules for additional time (which would be a soft-fork), or implement the real demand-driven detection and switchover logic.
As to the contents of this hard-fork, it will remove most aggregate limits other than block-size, since they become less relevant with the performance enhancements that come with enhancements pulled from upstream, and perform various other navel-gazing fixes. Most critically though it should bump up the maximum block size to the largest value the software is able to support (my guess: 32MB, which would be 128MWe, which means the largest post-segwit block would still fit in a single 128MB blkxxxx.dat file), and completely remove constraints on block difficulty.
Of course the actual fork will be far more constrained, using a flexible cap to slowly ramp up aggregate limits, and with a new, more responsive difficulty adjustment filter. But by simply removing limits or bumping them to the maximum possible after a time-based activation date, these older, pre-forward-blocks clients will still understand the compatibility blocks that are relayed to them, even though they don't know to enforce the more restrictive validation rules.