diff --git a/irc/client_aio.py b/irc/client_aio.py
index f86962d..a4e9e36 100644
--- a/irc/client_aio.py
+++ b/irc/client_aio.py
@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@
 import logging
 import threading
 
+from jaraco.stream import buffer
 from . import connection
 from .client import (
     Event,
@@ -48,6 +49,7 @@
     ServerConnection,
     ServerNotConnectedError,
     SimpleIRCClient,
+    DCCConnection,
     _ping_ponger,
 )
 
@@ -212,6 +214,148 @@ def disconnect(self, message=""):
         self._handle_event(Event("disconnect", self.server, "", [message]))
 
 
+class DCCProtocol(IrcProtocol):
+    """
+    A protocol for handling DCC connections.
+
+    Currently, DCCProtocol uses the same methods as `IrcProtocol`
+    for handling incoming data.  This should be fine for most use
+    cases, but in the unlikely event that a DCC connection needs to
+    handle incoming data in a different way than an IRC connection,
+    this class will need to be overridden.
+    """
+
+
+class AioDCCConnection(DCCConnection):
+    """
+    An asyncio-based DCCConnection.
+
+    This class overrides select-based methods with asyncio-based ones.
+    """
+
+    rector: "AioReactor"
+    buffer_class = buffer.DecodingLineBuffer
+
+    protocol_class = DCCProtocol
+    protocol: DCCProtocol
+    socket: None
+    connected: bool
+    passive: bool
+    peeraddress: str
+    peerport: int
+
+    async def connect(
+        self, address: str, port: int, connect_factory: connection.AioFactory = connection.AioFactory()
+    ) -> "AioDCCConnection":
+        """Connect/reconnect to a DCC peer.
+
+        Arguments:
+            address -- Host/IP address of the peer.
+            port -- The port number to connect to.
+            connect_factory -- A callable that takes the event loop and the
+              server address, and returns a connection (with a socket interface)
+
+        Returns the DCCConnection object.
+        """
+        self.peeraddress = address
+        self.peerport = port
+        self.handlers = {}
+        self.buffer = self.buffer_class()
+
+        self.connect_factory = connect_factory
+        protocol_instance = self.protocol_class(self, self.reactor.loop)
+        connection = self.connect_factory(protocol_instance, (self.peeraddress, self.peerport))
+        transport, protocol = await connection
+
+        self.transport = transport
+        self.protocol = protocol
+
+        self.connected = True
+        self.reactor._on_connect(self.protocol, self.transport)
+        return self
+
+    # TODO: implement listen() in asyncio way
+    async def listen(self, addr=None) -> "AioDCCConnection":
+        """Wait for a connection/reconnection from a DCC peer.
+
+        Returns the DCCConnection object.
+
+        The local IP address and port are available as
+        self.peeraddress and self.peerport.
+        """
+
+        raise NotImplementedError()
+
+    def disconnect(self, message: str = "") -> None:
+        """Hang up the connection and close the object.
+
+        Arguments:
+
+            message -- Quit message.
+        """
+        try:
+            del self.connected
+        except AttributeError:
+            return
+
+        self.transport.close()
+
+        self.reactor._handle_event(
+            self, Event("dcc_disconnect", self.peeraddress, "", [message])
+        )
+        self.reactor._remove_connection(self)
+
+    def process_data(self, new_data: bytes) -> None:
+        """
+        handles incoming data from the `DCCProtocol` connection.
+        """
+
+        if self.passive and not self.connected:
+            raise NotImplementedError()
+            # TODO: implement passive DCC connection
+
+        if self.dcctype == "chat":
+            self.buffer.feed(new_data)
+
+            chunks = list(self.buffer)
+
+            if len(self.buffer) > 2**14:
+                # Bad peer! Naughty peer!
+                log.info(
+                    "Received >16k from a peer without a newline; " "disconnecting."
+                )
+                self.disconnect()
+                return
+        else:
+            chunks = [new_data]
+
+        command = "dccmsg"
+        prefix = self.peeraddress
+        target = None
+        for chunk in chunks:
+            log.debug("FROM PEER: %s", chunk)
+            arguments = [chunk]
+            log.debug(
+                "command: %s, source: %s, target: %s, arguments: %s",
+                command,
+                prefix,
+                target,
+                arguments,
+            )
+            event = Event(command, prefix, target, arguments)
+            self.reactor._handle_event(self, event)
+
+    def send_bytes(self, bytes: bytes) -> None:
+        """
+        Send data to DCC peer.
+        """
+        try:
+            self.transport.write(bytes)
+            log.debug("TO PEER: %r\n", bytes)
+        except OSError:
+            self.disconnect("Connection reset by peer.")
+
+
 class AioReactor(Reactor):
     """
     Processes message from on or more asyncio-based IRC server connections.
@@ -248,6 +392,7 @@ async def my_repeating_message(connection):
     """
 
     connection_class = AioConnection
+    dcc_connection_class = AioDCCConnection
 
     def __do_nothing(*args, **kwargs):
         pass
@@ -275,6 +420,21 @@ class definied above.
         """
         self.loop.run_forever()
 
+    def dcc(self, dcctype="chat"):
+        """Creates and returns a DCCConnection object.
+
+        Arguments:
+
+            dcctype -- "chat" for DCC CHAT connections or "raw" for
+                       DCC SEND (or other DCC types). If "chat",
+                       incoming data will be split in newline-separated
+                       chunks. If "raw", incoming data is not touched.
+        """
+        with self.mutex:
+            conn = self.dcc_connection_class(self, dcctype)
+            self.connections.append(conn)
+        return conn
+
 
 class AioSimpleIRCClient(SimpleIRCClient):
     """A simple single-server IRC client class.
@@ -288,6 +448,7 @@ class AioSimpleIRCClient(SimpleIRCClient):
     """
 
     reactor_class = AioReactor
+    reactor: AioReactor
 
     def connect(self, *args, **kwargs):
         self.reactor.loop.run_until_complete(self.connection.connect(*args, **kwargs))