Re: punctuation

Erik van der Poel <[email protected]> Thu, 24 Feb 2005 10:00:59 -0800
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.idn
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> If they were displayed 
> in the opposite (big-endian) order, the 3rd example above would become:
> 
> http://xx.baz.com|bar.foo
> 
> Notice how the "com" and "foo" are now separated.

There was a gap in my logic here. A phisher could easily keep the "com" 
and "foo" next to each other. My real point is that big-endian display 
of domain names would put the important parts of the name near the 
beginning for a left-to-right reader:

> The "real" (unspoofed) 
> URI would look like this:
> 
> http://com.foo

Erik