> Aside from tradition, what's wrong with just using IRC over packet?
It starts with the question: which IRC? The RFC is long obsoleted
by the actual implementations. To make it worse, those implementations
are incompatible with each other, you've got to stick with one
server type. The overhead is higher (IMHO not really a problem), depending
on the ircd you use some timers (especially for pings) need to get
tweaked.
The main problems with IRC as we know it:
- does not allow loops (but at least it doesn't render the whole
network unusable if they occur)
- complicated to configure
- only suited for small networks: at least for the Undernet server
every Hub server needs an entry in all other nodes' config
- low acceptence by the users as long as convers at least somewhat
works
IRC isn't much better than convers, hence a new protocol would be
the best sollution. At least it could take care of the loop issue.
73,
Joerg Reuter http://poboxes.com/jreuter/
And I make my way to where the warm scent of soil fills the evening air.
Everything is waiting quietly out there.... (Anne Clark)
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