[Cz-computers] Certification (individual)

[Sunburned Surveyor]

I don't see any problem with "straightforward citation?". Especially
with someone else reviewing the article. I think blatant
self-promotion would be pretty obvious.

Landon

On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 9:17 AM, Howard C. Berkowitz <hcb at netcases.net> wrote:
> I'm thinking of starting some articles (top-down) on industry certifications for people,
> perhaps from a even higher-level article on certifications (computer [industry]) to
> include equipment certification (e.g., NEBS, TEMPEST), system certification (e.g., PCI
> security), process certification (e.g., ISO 9000), etc.
>
> First, I'm struggling for good article titles. I'd rather say certification (computer
> industry) as the highest level, although the custom might be certification (computers).
> So far, I haven't found a short title, which would sound sensible to someone not in the
> field, about individual certification. For the international membership, at least U.S.
> idiom that "he's certifiable" has a very different meaning, although not at all
> incompatible with the personalities of many in the industry.
>
> While I haven't done certification training business in several years and find the
> certification cramming industry sufficiently distasteful that I seriously doubt I'll ever
> work in it again, I did have around a decade of experience with Cisco's programs, have
> published in it, and would to have some assurance that I could use reviewed and discussed
> personal experience, some of which might need nomination by a Computers Editor as a signed
> article.
>
> Is this useful as a direction? Are others interested?
>
> On a separate note, I'm trying to build up the routing side so it might attract some new
> people who could see CZ as a repository of often undocumented wisdom. Last night, I
> started Routing Policy Specification Language; I can go back to BGP and OSPF and go far
> deeper into good practice. Now, while I have public domain presentations at NANOG and
> ARIN, as well as routing & addressing publications and copublications in the IETF and
> IRTF, I've also published commercial books--not that Tom Clancy has to worry about his
> sales. I was considering paraphrasing from my own work, citing the books not so to
> recommend buying them -- they are getting pretty old, although people are doing new web
> publications rather than print books -- but that while not in a journal, they went through
> thorough, non-anonymous professional publisher review and have, I believe, some
> authoritative quality; Scott Bradner and Vint Cerf and Lyman Chapin are a pretty high bar
> to satisfy.  Any problems with straightforward citation?
>
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