[MAJordan]

I am still very green to the MUD development and many flavors of M**s

While reading a lot of posts online and through this forum there are a few things I keep seeing which is never explained.

My questions are..


Are there or has there been any MUD servers which also supply client applications?

Is there a reason many MUD developers stick with the basic telnet client side?

Has there ever been a attempt to standardize a MUD protocol?


It seems most I see are built around telnet connections, having the clients be either very basic or 3rd party built.

I would think that a protocol even per distribution would be a natural next step.
Everything else has become a common protocol within ftp, http, smtp, ssl, imap, etc...

The benefits would/could be storage of information, better communication.
This could also be controlled by distributing binary sources only.