Re: [Ltru] Any information on SF?

"Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi> Thu, 06 August 2009 18:57 UTC

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From: "Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi>
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Subject: Re: [Ltru] Any information on SF?
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Mark Davis ⌛ wrote:

> I had first presumed that SF is not included because it was withdrawn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.

"SF" was previously used as a country code for Finland in some contexts, 
like car plates and postal addresses. I would expect such usage to be so old 
and dated that it can be ignored. In particular, in postal addresses, it was 
replaced in 1993 by "FIN" (which in turn was replaced by "FI" in 2004). The 
Internet domain for Finland has been ".fi" from the beginning.

("SF" was formed from "Suomi Finland", i.e. from the name of the country in 
its two official languages, Finnish and Swedish. We often thought that 
others thought that it actually came from "Soviet Finland"; I'm half serious 
in suggesting that this was one of the reasons for moving to "FIN" or "FI".)

-- 
Yucca, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/

[Ltru] Any information on SF? Mark Davis ⌛
Re: [Ltru] Any information on SF? Randy Presuhn
Re: [Ltru] Any information on SF? Mark Davis ⌛
Re: [Ltru] Any information on SF? Kent Karlsson
Re: [Ltru] Any information on SF? Jukka K. Korpela
Re: [Ltru] Any information on SF? John Cowan