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> When you join ssh-chat, not only do I know who you claim to be, but I can also permanently and securely attach an identity to your connection without any user intervention on your part.

A great part of IRC is that there's no registration. There's no identity.

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There doesn't have to be registration or a consistent identity with ssh, when it's used as described in TFA. Just pass a different identity file with "-i".

Of course, most uses of ssh would use a preestablished account on a host and that wouldn't vary, but there's nothing in the protocol requiring that.

That's... not true at all? Nickserv and Chanserv are essential parts of modern IRC and in practice people need a consistent identity to interact with most channels.

You don't need chanserv and you don't need nickserv. Efnet isn't dead -- it's just coughing up blood. (yes, it has ChanFix).

Most? Essential? Not really. I can hop into most of the channels with a different nick every time. Nobody cares. I can even use the same one without registering it as long as nobody else does that. I can open a chan without being registered and enforce rules in there.

The only time I need to register something is when I want to keep the channel alive and still be OP when I come back, when I want to keep my nick or when the chan owner requires me to register.

Which is all not "most channels".

Some channels ban non-registered users to protect themselves against spam.

You must be from EFnet. Hello! :)

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