The Internet Relay Chat (IRC) Protocol was first established in RFC 1459 though

the protocol is still being developed and is constantly changing. It is mainly

designed for group (many-to-many) communication in discussion forums called

channels, but also allows one-to-one communication via private message and data

transfers via Direct Client-to-Client.

* [IRC Documentation](http://www.irchelp.org/irchelp/rfc/)

* RFC 1459

* [Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRC)

* [www.networksorcery.com/enp/protocol/irc.htm](http://www.networksorcery.com/enp/protocol/irc.htm)