Hi, I belong to the Irc-Hispano development team, and I have an interesting proposal for all the biggest networks. When we add features such as, for example, what is going to be done in our network, where suspended nicks will show a "It has the nick SUSPENDed" (in spanish) at whois and a new user mode (+S) for that, that will prevent user of having +r mode, and also will deny bot access, and somethings more; and... we need, of course, to use a new numeric for the whois reply. The fact is, that when someone wants to start using a new numeric, you have to check that it's not in use at another network (or at least the bigger ones), and it's neccesary to perform some research before choosing the numeric to use. Also, there are some cases in wich, at different networks, the same numeric has different uses and, that, it's not very good for client compatibility.
Here is what we propose: Far beyond that creating a organism for controlling numeric assigment, we want to create a common and "official" meeting point for everybody for numeric using and assigmentent. It would be not a place where people asks permissions for using a numeric for an specific task, but a place where people could see what numerics are being used, what's the meaning of each one and, when you have to start using a new one, you can easily see what are free and, you mark that numeric then as "used" and also you tell what the use of that numeric will be. In that way, the next person to check such database, will see that there's a new reply and what that reply is. And, of course, if someone needs that feature in the future, will use that numeric instead using a new one or, even worst, using a new one that it will be in use in another network for another purpose. I hope i have explained myself well [:)] Glad to hear oppinions and ideads for this, thanks. Rubén Cardenal.
