Standards communities are weird places. There aren’t many communities where people can hone in on a single sentence and have arguments about it that span years or months.
Or maybe it’s not so weird to do that. When rules need ...
Why do IRC servers not communicate with a standard protocol, and can we introduce a standard protocol to talk between them?
Having a multitude of custom S2S protocols was inevitable given how IRC networks ended up being contro...
IRC is very strange from a standardisation perspective, and where it’s gonna end up isn’t clear.
IRC is a weird beast… really weird. It’s like 30 years old, there’s no controlling body, and the protocol has been randomly exten...