Re: [Ltru] Any information on SF?

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@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@iana.org would be the place to do it.
>
> Randy
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mark Davis ⌛" <mark@macchiato.com>
> To: "LTRU Working Group" <ltru@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 I had first presumed that SF is not included because it was withdrawn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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