RE: [idn] punctuation

["Michel Suignard" <michelsu@windows.microsoft.com>]

Many web sites use deep DNS sub-zones today (including the company I work for) and I really doubt our customers would appreciate such a radical change in user experience. Most people expect to see www.example.org not org.example.www. These days the 'www' is really noise, but it also frequent to see myzone.example.org which works really well with autocompletion logic. Putting org first would sort of defeat that logic as well.

Don't get me wrong, your idea is good, it is just way too late.

Like somebody else already said, I feel some level of overreaction in these threads.

Michel 

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-idn@ops.ietf.org [mailto:owner-idn@ops.ietf.org] On Behalf Of Erik van der Poel
Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2005 10:01 AM
To: IETF idn working group
Subject: Re: [idn] punctuation

> 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