Regex for bans is useful. I don't think I saw anyone say it's a bad idea for bans. Maybe I missed that.
As far as a "board" or a "committee" .... that's not going to work for IRC. It would be better to have anyone working on improving IRC or developing it to have a single (or a few) sites/forums/etc where they can get together and work on stuff. Then ALL people who are developing it can work together without some small group saying what is and what isn't.
And, for mIRC-centered... IRC was out before mIRC and will probably be out after mIRC is gone. mIRC uses whatever IRC has. If IRC needs improved, then improve it. If mIRC can't use the new changes right away, so be it. mIRC *can't* implement a new IRC feature if it's not implemented already. Yet it will still function if it's implemented in IRC and not yet included in mIRC. So, you have to start there and let mIRC catch up later.
