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Will these changes eventually make it into a new RFC? IRC is an IETF standard.
by TazeTSchnitzel 11y ago
Will these changes eventually make it into a new RFC? IRC is an IETF standard.
- jwheare2 11y agoThere is an effort[1] to unify these changes alongside a revised IRC spec that reflects real world implementations and improves upon the existing RFCs, but it's a longer term plan and still a work in progress. [1] https://github.com/kaniini/ircv3-harmony https://github.com/kaniini/ircv3-harmony
- thristian 11y agoIRC is kind of an IETF standard. That is, there are RFCs for the IRC protocol that are a useful introduction, but they don't cover basic user-visible things like `/me` or formatting codes (colour/bold/etc), and even the non-IETF specs that cover those things aren't necessarily reliable (the CTCP spec has a whole thing about how to encode metacharacters in payloads that in practice everybody ignores). At least these IRCv3 guys are writing down what they're doing.
- TazeTSchnitzel 11y agoThere are unofficial extensions, yeah, but that doesn't make IRC not be standard. I think it just needs to happen that someone gets the various extensions finally standardised.