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Re: bug ?

> Until such a day where the big 4 can agree on an RFC, the only RFC which will 
> be valid is RFC1459 as far as remaining compactible goes. Writing IRC clients 
> today is basically hellish since no one stays fully true to RFC 1459, but 
> otoh, the newer RFC's are network specific, hence are even less reliable to 
> base anything on.

Even worse the newer RFC's don't actually state that they are network
specific anywhere *AT ALL*.  If you read them you can be forgiven if you
misunderstood that they were for all networks.

> Now, the day the big 4 can agree on an RFC, it will be raining fireballs from 
> the skies, the atlantic ocean will part and you can walk across without 
> getting your feet wet and so forth and so on.

heh, the big 4 have started talking, and 005 is a direct result of this,
from what I know all the big 4 support 005 (to one degree or another).
It's a long road, but the first steps have been made.

> If clients broke on undernet at some point because clients failed to follow 
> the RFC, thats a client issue in reality.

True, but you can't break over 50% of your userbase and expect to get
away with it :)

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