[dcc2] App=IRCChat

[Trent Lloyd]

I definately think multi-person DCC chat is a go for the spec, there was
an implementation of this by someone in the mIRC community, i think it
was "Mutu", check mircscripts.org or something for the specs of it

On Mon, 2004-05-10 at 03:01 -0500, Dan Smith wrote:
> 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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