Introduction

RFC 2811: Internet Relay Chat: Channel management
1. Introduction


   This document defines in detail on how channels are managed by the
   IRC servers and will be mostly useful to people working on
   implementing an IRC server.
   While the concepts defined here are an important part of IRC, they
   remain non essential for implementing clients.  While the trend seems
   to be towards more and more complex and "intelligent" clients which
   are able to take advantage of knowing the internal workings of
   channels to provide the users with a more friendly interface, simple
   clients can be implemented without reading this document.

   Many of the concepts defined here were designed with the IRC
   architecture [IRC-ARCH] in mind and mostly make sense in this
   context.  However, many others could be applied to other
   architectures in order to provide forums for a conferencing system.

   Finally, it is to be noted that IRC users may find some of the
   following sections of interest, in particular sections 2 (Channel
   Characteristics) and 4 (Channel Modes).




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