We are a consortium of IRC developers interested in maximising the ease of development and standards compliance across the board of IRC servers and clients.
We are in the process of writing a more up to date and uniform spec for IRC than currently exists. The existing materials are either out of date and near totally irrelevant (RFC 1459), or slightly out of date and nearly universally not implemented (RFC 28xx). The new spec will be of great use to anyone wishing to implement IRC support in their software, either as a client or as a server.
They will, because they already do. At first, we're documenting *current* trends and practices that are followed such as RPL_ISUPPORT. We aren't going to be too specific and to try force our way on everybody like RFC 28xx did. We will also not be documenting server to server protocol.
Connect to irc.chatspike.net and join #irc-standard
Of course.
Because I don't have the time or inclination to make it pretty. If you want to, mail me with your design ideas.
(thanks nenolod for some CSS.)