For some time the internet community has been using the IRC protocol, as the basis for building community focused, text based conferencing networks. The IRC client/server implementations have, until recently, been based on RFC-1459. Due to limitations in real-world aspects of RFC-1459, such as scalability, internationalisation, security and extensibility, the emergence of custom alterations to the IRC RFC have clearly caused a divergence amongst the collective development of global IRC networks to the extent that they are no longer interoperable from a network to network perspective, and have confused the situation with respect to the client to server operability. As a result from these divergent development streams, it has been identified, through co-operative mailing list discussions, that some common features and protocol changes can be agreed upon and submitted as an enhancement or superceding amendment to the current RFC-1459. The aim of this BOF is to outline the common issues and concerns, to formulate a working group that will document problems in implementing RFC-1459 and develop solutions to these problems in the form of an updated RFC, or extensions to the current RFC-1459. The following agenda outlines the tasks that will be performed at the BOF meeting.