@drq we are *so* not going to like how costly and unreliable that'll make a lot of the networking hardware. So many additional moving parts and failure states, most of them utterly unfixable in the field. And considering PoE exists, every single one of those smart conductors will have to be quite beefy too.

But we could at least color the wires in a way that's easy to piece together intuitively and without relying on color hues. Green lightness gradient? High-contrast dash pattern of varying lengths?