The "Nick/Channel Delay" vs. "TimeStamp" protocols, is one of the most controversial technical issues surrounding IRC implementations, and surviving till date. Although both methods survive to solve the issue of denial-of-service attacks, but they both follow a very different approaches.

While executing, the problem with the original IRC protocol was that, when the two servers split and rejoined, the two sides of the network would simply fuse their channels together. To become a channel operator, the user can join on the "split" server that exists on the other side of the network and hence obtain the channel operator designation of the combined channel after the split of the network ends. The users will be booted off if any of the users take the nickname same as the one on the other side of the network at the time of rejoining.

All the users were booted off the connection client and the channel, which caused the creation of "no operator" rooms thereby, causing problems in the IRC channel which in turn made people to carry out disagreement of service assault so that additional and more set of connection splits occur so as to exploit the channel.