[Cz-computers] Certification (individual)

[Howard C. Berkowitz]

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?