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+## Just some notes jotted down while reading RFCs
+
+#### 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).