jonald_fyookball,

Above in my reply I propose a way that non-upgrading miners could continue to mine non-segwit blocks while still verifying SegWit blocks, which would avoid a chain split.  You claimed that such was not possible, I showed how it was possible.

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The One,

Policy: Rules that a node performs on block candidates in order to decide whether a block should be accepted into their block "tree", and then more rules that decide which branch tip describes the current ledger.

Soft Fork: A change to policy that is more constraining.

The purpose of BIP9 is to activate a Soft Fork that almost every miner wants without risk of a chain split (fork).  If a significant portion of miners (maybe 5% or more) do not want the policy change, then BIP9 fails.  Then we decide if we want to propose something new, or if we should cause a fork (via user activated policy change).

The next step is to User Activated Soft Fork.  I'm not too particular on which method is used to get SegWit activated.  Whatever (reasonable) option BitFury goes with, I'm in.

Cheers,
Praxeology Guy