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Interesting development. Apart from the original IRC specification published in 1993 and revised in 2000 (supposedly the namesake of "IRC v3") there has been qu
by vesinisa 10y ago
Interesting development. Apart from the original IRC specification published in 1993 and revised in 2000 (supposedly the namesake of "IRC v3") there has been quite little real standardisation work in IRC protocol, with various clients, servers and platforms each implementing their custom extensions.
- danieloaks 10y agoStandardisation is weird in IRC. From what I've seen, most of it that has happened has been the result of one group implementing their custom command/extension and then a bunch of other vendors implementing it in the same way (as well as all the interesting politics behind it all). There's a surprising amount that's been mostly-standardised over time, and not just from formal standards groups like the IETF or IRCv3. Related, I've been working on these sites for a while which I hope can be useful: http://defs.ircdocs.horse/ http://defs.ircdocs.horse/ http://modern.ircdocs.horse/ http://modern.ircdocs.horse/ Still, it's been really interesting to get into. It's nice seeing how things have gone so far and how they're going forward (and digging into the archives is always fun).