Inter-MUD protocol
Grapevine
Grapevine Inter-MUD Network
Legacy compatibility
Not in common current use
Legacy
An external network formerly used for cross-game chat and related services.
Protocol overview
- First seen
- Date not established
- Present-day status
- Legacy compatibility
- In use today?
- No common current use was verified.
- Legacy?
- Yes. It may still matter for compatibility or historical systems.
- Layer
- Inter-MUD protocol
- Transport
- External routed network and web services
- Research validated
Current use and fit
The current MUD Standards overview describes Grapevine itself as apparently dead.
Implementation essentials
- Treat existing integrations as migration or archival concerns.
Compatibility and safety notes
- Do not make a new architecture depend on an inactive external service.
Original specifications and sources
- MUD Standards inter-MUD overview Preservation
Where an original site has disappeared, a preservation archive is linked and identified as such. MUDVerse does not claim authorship of the original protocol.