[dcc2] App=IRCChat

[Dan Smith]

Hi everyone,

I will update the negotiation draft with the recent discussion from this 
past week.  In the mean time, I know Craig is anxious to start working on 
the direct chat connections.

I think that the current direct chat implementations are fairly good, and 
can be adopted without much change, besides the connection establishment 
addressed in the negotiation.

It may be a good idea to clearly state which "features" of direct chat 
should be official.  I know many (most) clients do not implement all of the 
quoting and escaping that was in the original IRCII.  Many clients have 
also taken to treating each newline terminated message in the same fashion 
as a PRIVMSG from the network, enabling associated actions and 
formatting.  What parts of this should we formalize?

Also some people have talked about a direct party line style group 
chat.  Is there interest in this?  If so, this should probably be a 
separate application level token (IRCPartyline or similar), since the 
negotiation/protocol may be noticeably different and more complicated due 
to relaying, or maybe not?  Any ideas on this?

Cheers!
Dan



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