[MPlayer-users] Re: Free audio codec for .AVI files ?

[Jan Knutar]

> use as the basis for an implementation. (If one writes an irc client
> or server solely based on RFC 1459, it won't work with any existing
> clients or servers. Thus it serves as a good example of bad "specs".)

A much better example than RFC 1459 is RFC 2812, the parts that aren't 
copied from 1459 are 95% bogus. A client based on rfc1459 would work 
with current servers though, as long as it doesn't try to do anything 
smart.