On Tue, 16 Sep 2014, David Lang wrote:
I agree, but I was more asking for thoughts on if this was a good
defintiion of "Professional" and if this definition would work any
better than the previous definitions we've tries to use for the term
"professional" and the follow-up discussions on
licensing/certification efforts.
Ah. I apologize for responding to the wrong question.
I think this definition is useful, because it is the first one that
I've seen that is able to draw a line between the Sysadmin who is
running their personal site or a local club/church site (something
that I strongly believe should NOT be regulated/licensed) and
someone running a bank (where they may have people working there who
aren't licensed, but it would be reaonsble to say that the person in
charge if not most of the senior people should be)
I think I understand your desire to provide solid guidance as to when
an "amateur" can be given charge of a computing environment and when
it should be run only be a "professional."
In the examples you've provided, however, it seems to me that you're
talking much more about the job than the person. A hospital job might
require HIPAA competencies, a retailer PCI competencies, a major ISP
Cisco/Juniper/BGP competencies, and the NSA a willingness to follow
the rules and keep your mouth shut.
I'm not sure that a single term like "professional" really captures
all that -- mostly because it gives the sense that a computer
professional at, say, a Kaiser Hospital would also accepted as a
computer professional at Comcast.
In other words, any mention of "professional" would be immediately be
followed by the question, "professional what?" Certainly not
"professional sysadmin," which is way too broad for any reasonable
licensing standards.
None of this is meant to undermine your point that some computing jobs
intersect with basic human well-being; it's just that I cannot
currently fathom any single term to describe the situation.
--
Paul Heinlein
heinl...@madboa.com
45°38' N, 122°6' W
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