Hi again blush

How does mIRC know who is an operator on a channel using the identifier isop? i have tried looking at IRC in its raw format and found nothing in the users text (PRIVMSG) that would tell mIRC its an opped user talking.
Am i right in supposing that mIRC would keep track of every user thats opped by parsing the raw (example :Solo1!Solo1@address.com MODE #main +o solo1) and saves it somewhere and deletes it when the user is deopped or leaves the channel?

Thanks