IRC Update BOF (ircup)

Wednesday, April 9 at 1415-1515
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DESCRIPTION:

IRC was first defined in RFC1459.  Since then, many groups started
developing a set of extensions to IRC.  This working group should 
develop standards-track IRC protocol extensions which are broadly 
useful. The working group will support and discuss interoperability 
of the necessary implementations to demonstrate the proposed protocols' 
utility. Extensions should be designed in such a way that existing 
clients supporting the IRC protocol will work with servers supporting 
IRCUP extensions.
 
Extensions will include, but not be limited to:   

     support of Unicode
     authorization and security mechanisms
     multi-layer security
     unified property mechanism
     IP multicast transport layer for a network of IRC clients 
       and servers
     Linkage between IRC and applications based on other session-layer 
       protocols     

CONTACT PERSON: John Noerenberg <jwn2@qualcomm.com>

AGENDA:

1) Review proposed charter
2) Formally introduce drafts that have been offered
3) Authors summarize their work to date, and goals of their protocol.
   (BOF attendees will be encouraged to read the drafts and come 
   prepared with questions.  Draft protocol design will not be debated 
   during the BOF) Discussion of protocol goals and their appropriateness.
4) Propose the location of WG-related mailing lists.  
5) Outline development schedule for WG, should it be chartered.
6) Ask for sense of BOF whether a WG should be formed.