Welcome to the home of the UnOfficial AIM/OSCAR Protocol Specification. Here, you will find the documents explaining, hopefully in full, the AIM/OSCAR protocol and related issues. These documents are divided into, currently, ten sections, not including news:

• Section 0.0: News
• Section 1.0: Introduction
• Section 2.0: AIM Command Basics
• Section 3.0: Connection Management
• Section 4.0: Errors
• Section 5.0: Buddy List Management
• Section 6.0: Gathering Member Information
• Section 7.0: Messaging
• Section 8.0: Privacy and Annoyance Management
• Section 9.0: Miscelanea
• Section 10.0: Other Services

Please make sure and read at least the Disclaimer (Section 1.4) in section 1 before reading or implementing anything based on the rest of the documentation.