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The IRC Foundation, as it says on the linked page, doesn't exist yet. That's a goal of irc.com to do.

irc.com is a domain purchased by Andrew Lee of Private Internet Access last year. Formerly, irc.com had a letter written from him about his goals hosted on it:

https://web.archive.org/web/20180622180151/https://irc.com/

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The letter is still on the site, click on "Let's take IRC further" in the upper right corner.

At the bottom of the page opening there is a link to "London Trust Media Holdings":

Some of the brands listed:

* Private Internet Access

* Linux Journal

* freenode

* snoonet

and others

Went there to check if Twitch was listed. Twitch chat runs on IRC, or at least can be connected to with an IRC client - are they involved with the ecosystem?

Twitch have their own custom IRC servers and not part of IRC.com/London trust media. They have been watching out on the IRCv3 group to ensure they implement IRC correctly though in the past.

Ah! Thanks for the additional info. I found the current site to be hard to parse for someone who has never heard of this foundation.

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