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IRCX (Internet Relay Chat eXtensions) is an extension to theInternet Relay Chat protocol, developed byMicrosoft.[1]
IRCX defines ways to useSimple Authentication and Security Layer authentication to authenticate securely to the server, channel properties/metadata, multilingual support that can be queried using the enhanced "LISTX" command (to find a channel in your language), an additional user level (so there are three levels: owners, hosts, and voices), specific IRC operator levels, and full support forUTF-8 (in nicknames, channel names, and so on). IRCX is fully backwards compatible with IRC; the new features are downgraded to something a standard IRC client can see (and UTF-8 nicknames are converted to hexadecimal).[1]
IRCX was originally supported onMicrosoft Exchange Server 5.5 (in place of the oldMicrosoft Chat protocol, which is a binary protocol) and a module was available for Microsoft Exchange 2000.[2]
Microsoft started to put IRCX through a standardisation process with theInternet Engineering Task Force by publishing 4Internet Drafts of their protocol.[1]
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