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  15     <B>Trevor Talbot</B>
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  19     <I>Tue Aug 20 16:42:00 PDT 2002</I>
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  34 <PRE>On Tuesday, August 20, 2002, at 06:16  AM, Andrew Church wrote:
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  36 &gt;&gt;&gt;<i> The WHY still remains the same, IETF-RFC should be the standard.
  37 </I>&gt;&gt;<i>
  38 </I>&gt;&gt;<i> Guess who wrote those RFCs? IRCnet. Guess who pays attention to
  39 </I>&gt;&gt;<i> them? no one.
  40 </I>&gt;<i>
  41 </I>&gt;<i>      Oh, was the message referring to the new RFCs?  I don't
  42 </I>&gt;<i> consider them
  43 </I>&gt;<i> &quot;standards&quot; documents, though I have to admit it's nice they
  44 </I>&gt;<i> took the time
  45 </I>&gt;<i> to actually document their modifications, unlike most other
  46 </I>&gt;<i> implementors.
  47 </I>&gt;<i> (For those who were unaware, RFC1459, the original IRC
  48 </I>&gt;<i> specification, is
  49 </I>&gt;<i> classed as an &quot;experimental&quot; protocol, so using the word &quot;standard&quot; to
  50 </I>&gt;<i> refer to it is incorrect, but I think it's beyond question that
  51 </I>&gt;<i> RFC1459 is
  52 </I>&gt;<i> more &quot;standard&quot; than the implementation of the day.)
  53 </I>
  54 RFCs 2810 - 2813 are merely &quot;informational&quot;, though they update RFC1459.
  55
  56 There was an attempt to hash out a standard for &quot;IRC 3&quot;, but that didn't
  57 get very far.  Unfortunately, IRC has no standard...
  58
  59 -- Quension
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