Re: Topic requests [FAQ/Rant]

[James Waldrop <sulam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 17 Sep 1999, Christophe Kalt wrote:
> On Sep 16, James Waldrop wrote:
> | What are the goals for 2.11? How can we help?
> 
> the primary goal and _only thing that matter at this time_ is
> the implementation of unique IDs for users.

Aha. Well, time for full disclosure then. I'm in the middle of writing an
IRC server in C++ for which one of the requirements is to support unique
id's. It also supports OSCAR/AIM and ICQ, the idea being to gateway all of
these protocols into one client, which is why I have to support the notion
of id's under IRC.

Right now my approach is similar to that used by Apache, where there is an
authentication module seperate from the rest of the code. The idea is that
someone will be able to add authentication modules for all kind of systems
if they want. Currently I'm working on a mysql version, since that's the
one that will be useful to me initially.

So I could probably help out here, unless the approach I'm using is
radically different from the one you've conceived.

James