> From: [email protected] [mailto:discuss- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Joseph Kern > > Please note that I am not talking about certification. I am talking about > creating a License to Practice.
If something like this comes about, it doesn't bother me, really. The only professions that don't require a license to practice are ones in which nothing amazingly valuable is at stake, or it's just so new or so small that nobody's been able to create such regulations yet. You have to be licensed (or certified) to practice law, give financial advice, build a house, cut down a tree, practice medicine, drive a taxi. Obviously, flying a plane and practicing medicine, you have other peoples' health directly in your control. But to practice law or be an accountant... The worst you can screw up is to cause financial harm, or cause negative legal consequences. Same as system administrators. Do such regulations eliminate malpractice, bad advice or bad counsel? No. Does it help reduce such things? Probably. If they do such a thing for system administration, they probably need to separate all sorts of levels into it. For example, nurse != doctor != acupuncturist != hypnotherapist. Each professional gets certified in their own field, and they're only allowed to perform certain things. Getting certified/licensed as a desktop support specialist is probably easier than getting certified in network security. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
