Just to add my two cents, IRim was brilliant, and it'd be great to have it (or something alike) back. Its (temporary) disappearance led me to create the A2B system of conveyor belts, which has gone a long way since it first came out. I guess that may be one of the mod that covers a little aspect of the original IRim.
On that note, A2B has a good momentum at the moment. We recently went "faceless" to make sure the mod does't rely on a single person, but will hopefully outlast any one of us :-) Dare I suggest - very humbly - a possible interaction between A2B and IRim 2.0 ? If you decide to go for a modular approach, then A2B could be seen as a separate module. Once again, just a very humble suggestion. You may very well want to do things differently to A2B. But the A2B board might also be willing to do some things differently to match some of the IRim 2.0 requirements ...
On that note, A2B has a good momentum at the moment. We recently went "faceless" to make sure the mod does't rely on a single person, but will hopefully outlast any one of us :-) Dare I suggest - very humbly - a possible interaction between A2B and IRim 2.0 ? If you decide to go for a modular approach, then A2B could be seen as a separate module. Once again, just a very humble suggestion. You may very well want to do things differently to A2B. But the A2B board might also be willing to do some things differently to match some of the IRim 2.0 requirements ...