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diff --git a/DESIGN-NOTES.md b/DESIGN-NOTES.md deleted file mode 100644 index eaed28b..0000000 --- a/DESIGN-NOTES.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,68 +0,0 @@ -## Just some notes jotted down while reading RFCs - -This is only for my own use and is not meant to be of any use to anyone else. - -#### RFC 1459 - -http://irchelp.org/irchelp/rfc/rfc.html - -Nicks can only be 9-chars long max. - -Channels names are strings (beginning with a ‘&’ or ‘#’ character) of length up -to 200 characters. Apart from the the requirement that the first character being -either ‘&’ or ‘#’; the only restriction on a channel name is that it may not -contain any spaces (’ ‘), a control G (^G or ASCII 7), or a comma (‘,’ which is -used as a list item separator by the protocol). - -A channel operator is identified by the ‘@’ symbol next to their nickname -whenever it is associated with a channe - -Because of IRC’s scandanavian origin, the characters {}| are considered to be -the lower case equivalents of the characters []\, respectively. This is a -critical issue when determining the equivalence of two nicknames. - -Each IRC message may consist of up to three main parts: the prefix (optional), -the command, and the command parameters (of which there may be up to 15). The -prefix, command, and all parameters are separated by one (or more) ASCII space -character(s) (0x20). - -***Clients should not use prefix when sending a message from themselves;*** - -The command must either be a valid IRC command or a three (3) digit number represented in ASCII text. - -IRC messages are always lines of characters terminated with a CR-LF (Carriage Return - Line Feed) pair, and these messages shall ***not exceed 512 characters*** in length, counting all characters **including the trailing CR-LF**. Thus, there are 510 characters maximum allowed for the command and its parameters. There is no provision for continuation message lines. See section 7 for more details about current implementations. - - -The BNF representation for this is: - -::= - -[':' <prefix> <SPACE> ] <command> <params> <crlf> - -::= - -<servername> | <nick> [ '!' <user> ] [ '@' <host> ] - -::= - -<letter> { <letter> } | <number> <number> <number> - -::= - -' ' { ' ' } - -::= - -<SPACE> [ ':' <trailing> | <middle> <params> ] - -::= - -<Any *non-empty* sequence of octets not including SPACE or NUL or CR or LF, the first of which may not be ':'> - -::= - -<Any, possibly *empty*, sequence of octets not including NUL or CR or LF> - -::= - -CR LF |