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I think you're mixing up endianness. The way I understand it, your first paragraph actually describes little endian encoding. I understand it as "the little value (i.e., the insignificant value) at the end".

EDIT: In fact maybe I'm wrong, if you consider the lowest byte address the first line of an address label... now I'm confused, haha.

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From Wikipedia:

>A big-endian system stores the most significant byte of a word at the smallest memory address and the least significant byte at the largest. A little-endian system, in contrast, stores the least-significant byte at the smallest address.

So if you count the address "fields" from top to bottom in ascending order, putting the country first and street address last would be big-endian. If you put the street address first and the country last, that'd be little-endian.

Yeah it doesn't make that much sense to me either.

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