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If only the big networks weren't so change averse, we could have had a new RFC for IRC that included mobile/roaming-friendly protocols, which IMHO is the #1 thing holding IRC back in the current age.

Does my client really have to burn battery by sending a PONG back every half second or so? Can't we have seamless roaming without disconnects?

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XMPP works so well on mobile connections that I have been using IRC over XMPP almost exclusively for quite some time using a transport that maps any IRC channel to an XMPP MUC (#maemo on freenode is “maemo%irc.freenode.net@irc.netlab.cz”) and any IRC user to an XMPP user (nickserv on freenode is “nickserv!irc.freenode.net@irc.netlab.cz”). Even when the connection is gone for several minutes (like when using UMTS on a train), XMPP usually transmits all pending messages as soon as I am back online.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XMPP

Wow, that reminds me of UUCP.

How so? Please elaborate.

http://ircv3.net/ - not sure if it fixes the PONG issue, though.

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