-Q: Why SILC? Why not IRC3?
-A: Question that is justified no doubt of that. I didn't start doing SILC
- to be replacement for IRC. SILC was something that didn't exist in
- 1996 or even today except that SILC is now released. However, I did
- check out the IRC3 project in 1997 when I started coding and planning
- the SILC protocol.
-
- But, IRC3 is problematic. Why? Because it still doesn't exist. The
- project is at the same spot where it was in 1997 when I checked it out.
- And it was old project back then as well. Couple of months ago I
- checked it again and nothing were happening. That's the problem of IRC3
- project. The same almost to happened to SILC as well as I wasn't making
- real progress over the years. I talked to the original author of IRC,
- Jarkko Oikarinen, in 1997 and he directed me to the IRC3 project,
- although he said that IRC3 is a lot of talking and not that much of
- anything else. I am not trying to put down the IRC3 project but its
- problem is that no one in the project is able to make a decision what
- is the best way to go about making the IRC3 and I wasn't going to be
- part of that. The fact is that if I would've gone to IRC3 project,
- nor IRC3 or SILC would exist today. I think IRC3 could be something
- really great if they just would get their act together and start
- coding the thing. I hope that the release of SILC gives a boost to
- the IRC3 project as well.