World Wide Conferencing Network
Latest News Tutorial Connect now! Mailing lists Register a channel wwcn FAQ Login using Java!	The World Wide Conferencing Network (WWCN) is a brand-new conferencing network, representing a whole new era in large scale, realtime, text-based conferencing. It uses the most advanced distributed conferencing protocol currently available, thus being capable of offering conferencing at a true world-wide scale. The World Wide Conferencing Network has been opened at the HIP '97 hackers' conference in a polder somewhere in The Netherlands, August 8th 1997.
Volunteers wanted!
Are you willing to run a server on WWCN? Do you want to help make WWCN truly the largest network of the world?
Features of WWCN:
Scales up to thousands of servers and millions of users Provides a Usenet News-like "room" (channel) naming scheme Offers optimal privacy for the users by using a User Directory Service Has built-in features to lock channels for young children (K12) Provides a reliable conferencing environment for recreational, educational and business use Has an IRC compatible interface so that off-the-shelf IRC clients can be used
In-depth information:
Technical report on the design of World Wide Conferencing Protocol Specification of the World Wide Conferencing Protocol Information on the implementation of the protocol Technical report on the design and organization of WWCN
WWCN archive
The mailinglist archive The Network Administration Group's decision archive The server registration depository The channel registration depository (also contains channel directory listing) The user blacklist

If you have any comments, please mail to grit@wwcn.student.utwente.nl