I agree.
We have also requested that our trial be on the forum. We are all active enough on the forum that we can have it on the forum, and our respective work firewalls do not block the forum. While I can access IRC, neither Osafune nor Temp can because of reasons exhaustively detailed already, not to mention that I should not be forced to have a trial on IRC where I will not my councel present, and my councel should not be forced to resign because they cannot be able to get on IRC.