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meta-description: Welcome to the IRCv3 Working Group. We're a group of IRC client and server software authors working to improve the IRC protocol.
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        <h1>IRC makes chat simple. We're making it modern.</h1>
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      <p class="lead">IRC is a networked protocol for group chat, tested and proven for over 20 years.</p>
      <p class="lead">The <a href="{{ site.baseurl }}/wg.html">IRCv3 Working Group</a> is a collection of IRC client and server software authors working to enhance, maintain and standardize the IRC protocol using backwards-compatible extensions.</p>

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          <h1><a href="{{ site.baseurl }}/wg.html" class="blog noline"><span class="fa fa-fw fa-briefcase"></span> Working Group</a></h1>   
          <p>This is the main hub of our work, containing links to the features provided by IRCv3, our specifications, and our participants.</p>
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          <h1><a href="{{ site.baseurl }}/irc/" class="blog noline"><span class="fa fa-fw fa-cogs"></span> Specifications</a></h1>
          <p>We have been releasing IRCv3 specifications with exciting, useful new features for networks, and client / server authors.</p>
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          <h1><a href="{{ site.baseurl }}/charter.html" class="blog noline"><span class="fa fa-fw fa-book"></span> Charter</a></h1>
          <p>We're chartered to prototype, develop and test incremental changes to the IRC client protocol. This defines the goals and rules of the IRCv3 WG.</p>
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