[GeorgeTirebiter]

You might be entertained to know that this is exactly what happened when 'the net' switched from NCP to TCP/IP -- there was a 'flag day' and poof! we were henceforth on TCP. So, it can be (successfully) done.

[hansel_der]

the diversity of the stakholders was arguably _much_ lower (mostly us-education and -defense) when this was done