Yet another note-to-self post, but these links are confusing, how do you make proper irc:// or ircs:// link?

I started wondering about the proper way to make irc/ircs links today and based on the following addresses

• https://www.iana.org/assignments/uri-schemes/prov/ircs
• https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-butcher-irc-url-04

EDIT 2015-08-30 & 2015-10-10: I got eaten by HTML5 validator, because of what was said above :frown: and the proper way how you make links without getting eaten by HTML5 validator is (https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-butcher-irc-url-04) and the address would become ircs://irc.example.org:6697/%23channel%2C%23%23channel%2C%21channel. See [Percent-encoding at Wikipedia]. Thanks Mardeg at irc.mozilla.org.

[percent-encoding at wikipedia]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percent-encoding#Percent-encoding_reserved_characters

• specifies that the link uses SSL with the s (for plain text just remove it)
• specifies the port so client doesn’t have to guess it
• clearly specifies the channels without leaving prefixes for the client to guess

The previously linked pages also contain other forms, but this seems the best to me and I am against using channel keys as there are better ways to keep channel private (such as restricted or +i and +I to authorized people) and server passwords aren’t used anywhere where I would encounter them, other than forwarding the password to NickServ, but that is depracted by SASL.