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[apps-discuss] IRC URIs to denote users

Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com> Mon, 22 September 2014 20:50 UTC

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From: Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com>
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Subject: [apps-discuss] IRC URIs to denote users
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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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