Internet Draft File: <draft-pfenning-irc-extensions-00.txt>

Kent Cedola Thomas Pfenning Microsoft Corporation 31 January 1997

Extensions to the Internet Relay Chat Protocol (IRCX)

2. Abstract

This document describes extensions to the Internet Relay chat protocol defined in RFC 1459[1]. The added functionality includes optional user authentication for multiple security providers, support for UNICODE[2] characters, multilayer security, a unified property mechanism, and support for tagged data messages. Chat server implementations can optionally support channel or server services with full control over all messages and events. These services communicate with the core server over an extended IRC connection.

All changes to the IRC protocol are designed in a way that existing clients will continue to work against servers implementing the extensions. Support for the extended protocol can be queried by clients to take advantage of the added functionality or to conform to the basic protocol as defined in RFC 1459.

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