Operation/Management Area

To discuss internet and server management/operation technology.

IRC

• Theme : This working group develops a method of stable and low cost operation of large scale services such as IRC, and reseaches on utilizing an "Message Transfer System on Application Layer", which is a feature of IRC.
• Chair : Shin Maruyama, Keijiro Ehara, Hiroki Nakano
• Started : 2002/11/19

IRC is first introduced in Finland on 1988, and from 1990, it is also used in Japan.

Based on wide-area distributed technology, IRC is a system allowing users to "chat" (by typing in text from their computer keyboards) in real time over the Internet.

WIDE's IRC Working Group is working on technologies for operating large-scale systems of this sort with optimum stability and safety, and at low cost of management. A protection technique against DDoS attack to public services of this kind is also a focused topic of our research.

It is also carrying out research on utilizing an "Message Transfer System on Application Layer", which is a feature of IRC.

milestone:

whenever :	Operating the IRC network
2005/04-05 :	Imprementation and Operation of the protection method against DDoS attack using customized DNS server with flexible response.
2005/02-07 :	Research of various kinds of messaging protocols on Application Layer.
2005/04-06 :	Research on current definition and imprementation about SCTP
2005/08 :	Multipath for IRC client-server connection. (research)
2005/12 :	Multipath for IRC client-server connection. (imprementation)