Alright, understood - sort of… 😵‍💫

> Am 01.02.2022 um 13:44 schrieb Anand Buddhdev <[email protected]>:
> 
> On 01/02/2022 12:39, Carsten Schiefner wrote:
> 
> Hi Carsten,
> 
>>>> On 31.01.2022 09:44, Robert Kisteleki wrote:
>>> 
>>> It is mostly correct: fnc is Fremont, US west coast.
>> is this the proverbial exception to the rule?
>> As FNC indeed stands for Funchal:
>> https://www.iata.org/en/publications/directories/code-search/?airport.search=FNC#searchForm
>> , when Fremont has FET or CNE, respectively, as an IATA airport code:
> 
> Our apologies for this confusion. Controller names were initially characters 
> from TV shows. Later, we began embedding location into them, using IATA 
> codes. But IATA codes can be problematic in some cases. So we decided to use 
> UN Locodes, as we do with RIPE Atlas anchors. The UN Locode for Fremont is 
> "us-fnc". Unfortunately, we used just the location part of it, and did not 
> include the country code, so the bare "FNC" looks like an IATA code.
> 
> Regards,
> Anand Buddhdev
> RIPE NCC
> 
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