Re: ANN: Etiquette: a protocol construction tool

Erik Enge writes:
> Eugene Zaikonnikov <[email protected]> writes:
> 
> > Speaking of sample apps: if anyone can think of an interesting (and/or
> > desirable) network application for me to implement with Etiquette, I
> > am all ears.
> 
> I recently set up ircd at work (I tried dancerd too and I have the same
> opinion about both).  What a horrible disaster.  Compile-time options
> that should really be at run-time, little flexibility in logging and
> monitoring the daemon (except for the &NOTICES channels and such but
> there's no real programatic way of listening to those that I know of).
> The config file format nearly rivals that of sendmail's and the options
> are not very obvious in many places.
> 
> Besides, all those splits and problems on irc.freenode.net are really
> getting to me.  If you wrote a really good daemon they might use it;
> lilo has been by #lisp more than once.  ;-)
> 
> Erik.

The  problem is with  the server-server  IRC protocol.   It has  to be
redesigned with scaling in mind.

Let's call this new protocol: Large Internet Schmoosing Protocol.
(or Large Internet Speaking Protocol).



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