[Direct communication on the Internet. Uninet: the university link for Integrate Telematic Services]

The importance of Internet as a communication medium is clear due to the amount of information it distributes and the high number of potential recipients it has. The appearance of virtual user communities (CMV) focuses to information classification within subjects of interest for certain groups of people in order to facilitate its search and use. The UniNet project of Integrated Telematic Services for CMV through, as well as other subprojects, the 'propuesta RedUni' encourages the creation of CMV by mean of integration of various computer and Internet resources, such as distribution mailing list, web pages, Internet Relay Chat (IRC), etc. The current state of IRC in such context is presented and the utilities of the known as Scientific-IRC as a professional real time communication tool are discussed.