Re: [apps-discuss] IRC URIs to denote users

On 23 September 2014 01:45, Ira McDonald <blueroofmusic@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Melvin,
>
> The current IANA URI Schemes registry includes the following
> three schemes:
>
> irc prov/irc <http://www.iana.org/assignments/uri-schemes/prov/irc> irc [
> Dave_Thaler
> <http://www.iana.org/assignments/uri-schemes/uri-schemes.xhtml#Dave_Thaler>
> ]  irc6 prov/irc6 <http://www.iana.org/assignments/uri-schemes/prov/irc6>
> irc6 [Dave_Thaler
> <http://www.iana.org/assignments/uri-schemes/uri-schemes.xhtml#Dave_Thaler>
> ]  ircs prov/ircs <http://www.iana.org/assignments/uri-schemes/prov/ircs>
> ircs [Dave_Thaler
> <http://www.iana.org/assignments/uri-schemes/uri-schemes.xhtml#Dave_Thaler>
> ]
> All three of those are September 2012 provisional registrations
> (with references that include butcher and draft-mirashi-url-irc-01).
>

I got a note from one of the authors of the RFC on this:

[[

Hi Melvin,

Sorry for the delay… Wow, the IRC URI draft – that’s a blast from the past!
That document never went anywhere due to arguments between established IRC
URIs used by IRC client developers at the time, so the document never
really became fully proofed. What a shame.

But to get to the point:

-          A user can be specified logging in (i.e.
*irc:myusername@some.irc.server.host*) but that was more intended to
support authentication with the server.

-          A user can be targeted for a conversation directly by specifying
the user as the target entity – the flag “isuser” is specified to make it
clear it’s a user we’re seeking. Examples:

o   Simple form: *irc:some.irc.server.host/friendnickname,isuser*

o   Explicit form:
*irc:some.irc.server.host/friendnickname%21theirusername,isuser*

o   Excessively explicit form:
*irc:some.irc.server.host/friendnickname%21theirusername%40theirhostname,isuser*

I doubt however this has been implemented anywhere, and the “isuser” stuff
was an ugly result of some bitter arguments. I hope this has helped!

Regards,

-          Simon

]]

>
> Cheers,
> - Ira
>
>
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>
> On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 4:50 PM, Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com
> > wrote:
>
>> I was wondering if IRC URIs are standardized at all?
>>
>> The latest I found was :
>>
>> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-butcher-irc-url-04
>>
>> I have a use case of marking reputation from one system (web chat room)
>> to an IRC chat room, but I require an identifier for the user.
>>
>> The suggestions so far have been:
>>
>> irc://user@host
>> irc://user@host/ -- trailing slash
>> irc:user@host -- similar to xmpp
>> irc://host/#user -- fragment could be problematic as per RFC 9386
>>
>> I've gone with the second option for the moment
>>
>> Any pointers would be most welcome.
>>
>>
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