[dcc2] Is DCC2 Dead?

[codemastr]

> I'm all up for getting what's already decided on implemented in Bersirc
> 2.2.x.
>
> - Theo

Well, what exactly should be implemented? The draft? Or the draft after the 
discussions? Meaning, we agreed on a bunch of new stuff, like shortening 
token names, possible support for compression of file sends, etc. None of 
that stuff is mentioned in the draft however. So if you implement from the 
draft, then you will be incompatible when these changes are added, and if 
you don't implement from the draft... well, then we're already coming up 
with "implementation specific" ideas even before the protocol has been 
standardized ;-)

I personally think the best thing to do would be to try and get this back in 
action. If Dan is too busy to deal with it now, maybe there could be a 
better way of writing the draft. Rather than having one person in charge of 
the drafting, it could be a password protected Wiki type thing, where we all 
have access to change it, once we agree to changes. I think we can assume 
that no one here would go and add their own ideas without discussion 
(otherwise, why bother joining at all?), so that seems like a safe route to 
go.

Perhaps we can also try to get more clients/irc related people involved. The 
more people involved, the better ideas we'll get going around. I wonder if 
the reason none of the "major" clients (mIRC, BitchX, irssi, epic) joined 
isn't so much that they don't care, but more so that they've never even 
heard of DCC2...

-- codemastr