[IRCServices] Is there a timeline in the future for supporting ircd2.9 or greater

[Trevor Talbot]

On Tuesday, August 20, 2002, at 06:16  AM, Andrew Church wrote:

>>> The WHY still remains the same, IETF-RFC should be the standard.
>>
>> Guess who wrote those RFCs? IRCnet. Guess who pays attention to
>> them? no one.
>
>      Oh, was the message referring to the new RFCs?  I don't 
> consider them
> "standards" documents, though I have to admit it's nice they 
> took the time
> to actually document their modifications, unlike most other 
> implementors.
> (For those who were unaware, RFC1459, the original IRC 
> specification, is
> classed as an "experimental" protocol, so using the word "standard" to
> refer to it is incorrect, but I think it's beyond question that 
> RFC1459 is
> more "standard" than the implementation of the day.)

RFCs 2810 - 2813 are merely "informational", though they update RFC1459.

There was an attempt to hash out a standard for "IRC 3", but that didn't
get very far.  Unfortunately, IRC has no standard...

-- Quension