Last time with the mandatory update the seeds where set still one by one. And after the change started up again. It was safe to do.
Now with the high hashrate on the network (15 GH/s-20GH/s), maybe it is the safest way to do it again that way. It is not the simplest way as I understand, but the safest as it seems.
I am not an expert, but I read somewhere (see quote below) that with high hashrate on the network, it maybe is harder to fork in a normal way. Is that true?
Maybe something to talk about by the experts, while there is enough time for that.
(Could be a non-issue, but just bringing it up, so we don't overlook that)
From another forum:
If it has a high diff..... Some people were saying it's harder to later hardfork the blockchain with a new version but I haven't checked into that myself.