Thomas,
I wonder if you've seen my proposal on how to make BIP9 more configurable:
This could be extended with a coinbase signaling feature as you suggest.
This could include parameter information for forks which a miner is signaling, for coordination.
Currently I've not included something like this, but it might make a nice addition.
One problem is the limited space in coinbase for embedding data on the large number of possible independent deployments.
Regards,
Sancho