Comment by SaberUK

There are draft specs to fix both of these but they haven't been worked on recently because nobody has the time or energy to work on it.

This is fundamentally the main problem with IRC development nowadays. People want IRC to have features but are unwilling to support IRC developers to actually implement them and as a result pretty much every single IRC developer (myself included) who isn't churning out slop is burned out because its a thankless job.