REGISTER/INFO/DROP with founder auth, stored as ChannelRegistered and
ChannelDropped events so channel registrations replicate across nodes
and compact like accounts. Registration requires an identified account;
only the founder can drop.
Once the log grows past ~3x the account count it is rewritten to one
AccountRegistered per account (churned cert events dropped), via a temp
file and rename. Cert replay is now idempotent, so a snapshot plus
re-delivered events converge and a peer syncing from a compacted node
still gets every account. Runs on a 30m timer.
A broadcast channel forwards each freshly committed entry straight to
connected peers, so a registration propagates in milliseconds. The
periodic digest drops to a 10s anti-entropy backstop.
Nodes run anti-entropy over a TCP link: each advertises its version
vector, the peer replies with the log entries it lacks, and ingest is
idempotent so re-delivery and reconnect after a split both converge.
The engine is shared behind a mutex; config gains [gossip] and [[peer]].
Accounts are an append-only JSONL event log (state is the fold of the log) with
argon2id-hashed passwords. NickServ gains REGISTER <password> [email] and
IDENTIFY <password>; the engine tracks UID->nick from the burst so a command
resolves to the sender's current nick. Classic and ircd-agnostic — the cap-based
account-registration forward is the next step.
Protocol-agnostic core: a Protocol trait maps raw server-to-server lines to a
normalized event/action model, so the engine never touches a raw line and a new
ircd is one new module. Adds event-log state (state is a fold over the log) and
a service framework. First protocol impl links to an InspIRCd (insp4) uplink —
completes the CAPAB/SERVER handshake, bursts, and introduces NickServ.
