IRCX - Wikipedia Jump to content Main menu Main menu move to sidebar hide Navigation Main page Contents Current events Random article About Wikipedia Contact us Contribute Help Learn to edit Community portal Recent changes Upload file Special pages Search Search Appearance Donate Create account Log in Personal tools Donate Create account Log in Contents move to sidebar hide (Top) 1 See also 2 References 3 External links Toggle the table of contents IRCX 2 languages العربية Türkçe Edit links Article Talk English Read Edit View history Tools Tools move to sidebar hide Actions Read Edit View history General What links here Related changes Upload file Permanent link Page information Cite this page Get shortened URL Switch to legacy parser Print/export Download as PDF Printable version In other projects Wikidata item Appearance move to sidebar hide From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Extension to the IRC protocol This article needs to be updated. Please help update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information. (June 2024) IRCX (Internet Relay Chat eXtensions) is an extension to the Internet Relay Chat protocol, developed by Microsoft.[1] IRCX defines ways to use Simple 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 for UTF-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 on Microsoft Exchange Server 5.5 (in place of the old Microsoft 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 the Internet Engineering Task Force by publishing 4 Internet Drafts of their protocol.[1] See also [edit] Internet Relay Chat References [edit] 1 2 3 Abraham, Dalen (June 1998). "Extensions to the Internet Relay Chat Protocol (IRCX)". IETF. Retrieved 2008-09-04. ↑ "Exchange Chat Features/IRCX". Microsoft. April 19, 2004. Retrieved 2008-09-04. External links [edit] IRCX Draft The latest revision of the IRCX draft TesX Server Free, Open Source, Platform independent IRCX server v t e Internet Relay Chat (IRC) Comparison of clients Common terms BNC Bot DoS attack Flood Netsplit Operator Script IRCd Services Takeover Related protocols IRCX MSN Chat CTCP DCC XDCC Ident Networks DALnet EFnet Freenode GameSurge IRCnet Libera Chat OFTC QuakeNet Rizon RusNet SlashNET Snoonet Undernet Technology Eggdrop SASL Infobot BitlBee ZNC UnrealIRCd See also List of commands Subculture Jarkko Oikarinen Clients macOS Colloquy Fire Homer Ircle Linkinus Snak Microsoft Windows Bersirc mIRC Microsoft Comic Chat PIRCH Shareaza Visual IRC Unix-like ircII Ii Cross-platform Ayttm BitchX IRC Cloud Irssi Konversation KVIrc LeafChat naim Nettalk Smuxi WeeChat HexChat PJIRC Quassel IRC XChat Multi-IM Centericq Empathy Kopete Miranda NG Pidgin Trillian Web-based CGI:IRC PJIRC Mibbit Web browser components ChatZilla Mozilla Application Suite Mozilla Thunderbird Library and plug-ins ERC rcirc Category This Internet Relay Chat-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by adding missing information. v t e Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=IRCX&oldid=1343554258" Categories: IRC MSN Protocols related to IRC IRC stubs Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description matches Wikidata Wikipedia articles in need of updating from June 2024 All Wikipedia articles in need of updating All stub articles This page was last edited on 15 March 2026, at 01:36(UTC). Page was rendered with Parsoid. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization. Privacy policy About Wikipedia Disclaimers Contact Wikipedia Legal & safety contacts Code of Conduct Developers Statistics Cookie statement Mobile view Search Search Toggle the table of contents IRCX 2 languages Add topic