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[ga] Re: IDN evaluation by ICANN (Was: Sponsorship of IGF Workshops

  • To: Debbie Garside <debbie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Subject: [ga] Re: IDN evaluation by ICANN (Was: Sponsorship of IGF Workshops
  • From: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@xxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2007 12:08:08 +0200
  • Cc: ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • In-reply-to: <20070706100018.863F11714050@mx1.nic.fr>
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On Fri, Jul 06, 2007 at 11:00:08AM +0100,
 Debbie Garside <debbie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote 
 a message of 37 lines which said:

> Sorry to be the resident thicky here, I know what IDN TLDs are but what is A
> RRs?

The DNS protocol serves Resource Records (RR) which are values indexed
by a name (the domain name). Each RR has a type, A for an IPv4
address, MX for a mail exchanger, AAAA for an IPv6 address, NS for a
name server and so on and so forth.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNS#Types_of_DNS_records



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