diff --git a/packages/cultnet-ts/src/cultmesh-authority.ts b/packages/cultnet-ts/src/cultmesh-authority.ts
index d61f6072..31cbcb61 100644
--- a/packages/cultnet-ts/src/cultmesh-authority.ts
+++ b/packages/cultnet-ts/src/cultmesh-authority.ts
@@ -366,14 +366,16 @@ export function isLoopbackEndpoint(value: string): boolean {
  * scheme containing "quic", over a string `System.Uri` parses at all.
  *
  * `refusedByCSharpUriShape` runs first here for the same reason it runs first in
- * `isLoopbackEndpoint`, and it matters more: `URL` repairs eleven spellings
+ * `isLoopbackEndpoint`, and it matters more: `URL` accepts eleven spellings
  * `System.Uri` refuses outright, and every one of them would be *protected* here
- * and unprotected in C#. `wss:x`, `wss:host`, `wss:host:8443`, `wss:/host` and
- * `wss:///host` have no authority for `System.Uri` to accept; `wss://host\path`
- * and `wss://host:8443\` carry a backslash; `wss://ho\tst/m`, `wss://host\t/m`,
- * `quic://ho\tst` carry a tab and `wss://host\r\n/m` a CR/LF, which `URL`
- * deletes. Letting any of them answer true would clear the channel-protection
- * gate on a route C# refuses.
+ * and unprotected in C#. Only four of the eleven are repairs in the sense of
+ * `URL` rewriting the host: `wss://ho\tst/m`, `wss://host\t/m` and
+ * `quic://ho\tst` carry a tab and `wss://host\r\n/m` a CR/LF, all of which `URL`
+ * deletes. The other seven `URL` simply admits as written: `wss:x`, `wss:host`,
+ * `wss:host:8443`, `wss:/host` and `wss:///host` have no authority for
+ * `System.Uri` to accept, and `wss://host\path` and `wss://host:8443\` carry a
+ * backslash. Letting any of the eleven answer true would clear the
+ * channel-protection gate on a route C# refuses.
  *
  * Two spellings of Soul's 71 still disagree, both the safe way round: C# calls
  * them protected and this answers false, so a route is refused rather than
diff --git a/packages/cultnet-ts/test/cultmesh-authority.test.ts b/packages/cultnet-ts/test/cultmesh-authority.test.ts
index dbf5a8d7..e0c47234 100644
--- a/packages/cultnet-ts/test/cultmesh-authority.test.ts
+++ b/packages/cultnet-ts/test/cultmesh-authority.test.ts
@@ -390,12 +390,18 @@ const CSHARP_PROTECTED_ANSWERS: readonly (readonly [string, boolean])[] = [
 
 // The eleven of the 71 where the two sides still differ, every one of them the
 // safe way round: C# calls the endpoint protected and TypeScript does not, so a
-// route is refused rather than admitted. `refusedByCSharpUriShape` is stricter
-// than `System.Uri.TryCreate` on purpose — it also refuses the host repairs that
-// would make `isLoopbackEndpoint` lie — and a zone id and a non-breaking-space
-// host throw in `URL` before any rule of ours runs. None of them is dialable as
-// a browser CultMesh route. Pinned exactly, not merely excluded: if one of these
-// starts answering true, or a twelfth spelling joins them, this fails.
+// route is refused rather than admitted. They are not one shape. Three carry a
+// backslash (`wss:\\host/m`, `wss://host:8443/\`, `QUIC:\\host`) and two have no
+// authority for `System.Uri` to accept (`quic:host`, `quic:`); those five
+// `refusedByCSharpUriShape` refuses on the raw string, before any host exists to
+// repair. Four are host repairs `URL` would make and C# would not — a trailing
+// dot on `wss://host./m` and `wss://127.0.0.1./m`, a fullwidth host on the other
+// two — which is the same reason that pre-check runs first in
+// `isLoopbackEndpoint`. The last two throw in `URL` before any rule of ours
+// runs: an IPv6 zone id and a non-breaking space in the host. None of the eleven
+// is dialable as a browser CultMesh route. Pinned exactly, not merely excluded:
+// if one of these starts answering true, or a twelfth spelling joins them, this
+// fails.
 const STRICTER_THAN_CSHARP: readonly string[] = [
   "wss:\\\\host/m",
   "wss://host./m",