Is there a semi-standard way to associate a URL with an IRC user?

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Published on 2009-04-16T14:21:52Z Indexed on 2010/06/18 12:53 UTC
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I'm in the process of doing some identity consolidation, so I'm providing URLs to me at various locations on the internet. I'm quite active on IRC, so this naturally lead me to wonder whether there was a way to provide a link to my IRC presence.

This lead to me finding http://www.w3.org/Addressing/draft-mirashi-url-irc-01.txt which appears to be a draft of an RFC for associating URLs with IRC, which suggests that I would be

irc://irc.freenode.net/DRMacIver,isnick

Which seems a little on the lame side. Further, this RFC draft has very thoroughly expired (February 28 1997). On the other hand it seems to be implemented in chatzilla at least:

http://www.mozilla.org/projects/rt-messaging/chatzilla/irc-urls.html

So does anyone know if there's a superseding RFC and/or any other de facto standard for this?

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