[174320] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Vendor cert levels
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rich Kulawiec)
Thu Sep 4 05:17:21 2014
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2014 05:17:11 -0400
From: Rich Kulawiec <rsk@gsp.org>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <CAGFjxGbq3H+1m8XpM29DuQ-+cBNaz=CiEA+9AVxF6i=ot3FMEA@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, Sep 03, 2014 at 10:00:17AM +0100, Isaac Adams wrote:
> As a general rule, do you all fund employees certification and if so what
> kind of levels do you try to maintain as good practice?
No and none. I see value in competence, practice, experience, education
and the inevitable bitter lessons that we all must endure, but I don't
see any value in the vendor certification process except as "cash cow
for vendors".
---rsk
