- From: Kevin Day <toasty@dragondata.com>
- Date: Fri, 31 Dec 1999 19:51:44 -0600 (CST)
- To: Ned.Freed@innosoft.com (Ned Freed)
- Cc: toasty@dragondata.com (Kevin Day), discuss@apps.ietf.org
> > > Has any thought been given to the creation of an IRC or other realtime chat > > working group? > > http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/impp-charter.html > > Ned > Yeah, I saw impp, however it really doesn't apply to IRC, and seems to have quite a different target that what I was looking for. The goals I was more considering were a new IRC RFC that takes into account most/all of the server/client communications(which I realize someone is working on now), as well as architecting enhancements to the IRC protocol in a standard way. Many IRC networks are all trying to add the same features, but doing them in drastically different ways. Right now, the acid test to see if a new feature will suceed is if you can convince Khaled Mardam-Bey to add support for it in mIRC. I have a great respect for Khaled, and have worked with him in the past. However, all client authors face the problem of deciding what to spend time on. Documenting and extending the IRC protocol is quite a task of its own, which I believes differs from impp. I'd also like to at lesat consider the notion of overlapping work between an irc and impp group, since they do share many common ideas. Kevin
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