Re: [Ltru] Any information on SF?

[Kent Karlsson <kent.karlsson14 at comhem.se>]

Title: Re: [Ltru] Any information on SF?

According to http://www.iso.org/iso/support/country_codes/iso_3166_code_lists/iso-3166-1_decoding_table.htm#SF,
it appears to have been withdrawn in 1995. 

SF  Finland         1995-09

Why was there ever such a code? Well, "SF" would be an abbreviation for "Suomi/Finland".
"Suomi" is "Finland" in Finnish. Erkki might know more.

I've seen it recommended/used way back when (presumably before 1996...). It was used for vehicle country
codes too (current code "FIN", according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_international_vehicle_registration_codes).
Both sets of country codes (ISO, vehicle) have been used for paper mail.

    /kent k



Den 2009-08-06 20.34, skrev "Mark Davis" <mark at macchiato.com>:

I am NOT suggesting adding it to the registry. I just wanted to find out what it is, to see if we need a mapping in CLDR.

Mark


On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 11:31, Randy Presuhn <randy_presuhn at mindspring.com> wrote:

Hi -

As technical contributor...

My suggestion would be to not worry about it.

As co-chair...

It's *way* too late and too unlikely to be the source of
any kind of problem to open it up as an issue here.  If
someone thinks it would be *useful* to add it to the registry,
ietf-languages at iana.org would be the place to do it.

Randy

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Davis ⌛" <mark at macchiato.com>
To: "LTRU Working Group" <ltru at ietf.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 06, 2009 11:16 AM
Subject: [Ltru] Any information on SF?


(That's not "San Francisco" or "Science Fiction", or any confluence of the
two.)

We're in the process of updating to the new IANA registry, and I was
cross-checking to http://www.iso.org/iso/iso-3166-1_decoding_table. The code

SF stands out.

*Transitionally reserved*
BU    Burma
CS    SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO
NT    Neutral Zone
*SF    Finland     Not in IANA. CLDR maps to FI??
*TP    East Timor
YU    Yugoslavia
ZR    Zaire

I had first presumed that SF is not included because it was withdrawn before
RFC1766. But SF is not even listed in
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-3 as a retired code. (ISO makes it
exceptionally painful, as we all know, to get access to 3166-3:
http://www.iso.org/iso/country_codes/background_on_iso_3166/iso_3166-3.htm).
Note that http://www.iso.org/iso/iso-3166-1_decoding_table definitely has
some oddities. For example, instead of "officially assigned", for two items
it has "officiellement attribué". So for all we know, SF is just a mistake
in that table!

Does anyone know more about the code SF?

For comparison, here are the "Exceptionally Reserved", two of which are
obsolete codes.

*Exceptionally Reserved*
AC    Ascension Island     ok
CP    Clipperton Island     ok
DG    Diego Garcia     ok
EA    Ceuta, Melilla     ok
EU    European Union     ok
*FX    France, Metropolitan     Deprecated in IANA: IANA maps to FR
*IC    Canary Islands     ok
*SU    USSR     Deprecated in IANA: CLDR maps to RU AM AZ BY EE GE KZ KG LV
LT MD TJ TM UA UZ
*TA    Tristan da Cunha     ok
*UK    UNITED KINGDOM     Not in IANA. CLDR maps to GB*

Mark



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