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DCC2 Protocol for IRC file transfers

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the transfering-underground dept.

Joe_Hypnol writes "I just noticed this bit of news over at IRC Junkie. Looks like a bunch of irc client authors (and even more) are putting their heads together to come up with DCC2, a replacement for the the poorly designed DCC IRC file transfer specification. The old protocol was basically based on a usenet post, but this new one is looking like it'll be a full-blown standard. It's currently an IETF internet working draft. Read the press release at DCC2.org."

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  1. Wonderful XML by Manip · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Wonderful, more incorrect use of XML... I wonder, why not XML up the XML so you can have an tag which contains even more XML? Sounds insane doesn't it.. but that is what XML does in general... Why oh Why would you write a communications protocol using XML as your base?!

    I doubt this will be as popular as they think, with people designing it like this it limits it to platforms with an XML interpreter and also makes it extremely inefficient (compared to normal tags).