[atlas] Location of probe controllers

Alright, understood - sort of… 😵‍💫

> Am 01.02.2022 um 13:44 schrieb Anand Buddhdev <anandb at ripe.net>:
> 
> 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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