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@@ -190,9 +190,3 @@ vendored crypto crate. Plaintext still works with `tls = false` / `port = 6667`.
 Plain TCP and TLS share one code path: `Connection` holds a single
 `Box<dyn Read + Write>`, since the single-threaded event loop never needs the
 old read/write socket split (which TLS can't do anyway).
-
-## Roadmap / natural next steps
-
-- **Read timeout + client-sent PING** to detect dead connections faster.
-- **STARTTLS** (the `tls` cap) for networks without a dedicated TLS port.
-- Split commands into a registry/trait once there are many of them.