Re: [IDS] IDS Common Criteria

[Randy Taylor <gnu () charm net>]

*chuckle*  I completely missed the "Outside the Government.."
part of Andy's question. My bad. More inline below.

At 04:04 PM 1/7/2003 -0500, Frederick M Avolio wrote:
> Sorry, Randy. To be sure. I was responding directly in context.
>
> Andy asked
> > Outside Government and Military circles where I can see Common Criteria
> > Certification being extremely useful,  how valuable is it, ie within the
> > financial sector etc ?
>
> I don't think it is valuable at all. I don't see how it possibly could be for
> government, either. But, to the poor vendor who now has to comply with 
> it... yes,
> it is essential.
>
> Perhaps it stimulates the economy. :-)

I'm a member of a private list that often uses the phrase "...or something"
whenever hard-coded dogma (or catma) flies in the face of what most would
perceive as logical, rational, or reasonable. So, to mangle your quote above:

"Perhaps it stimulates the economy...or something." }->

All seriousness aside, there is value in Common Criteria
if it's in nothing more than establishing a baseline evaluation
standard whose results can be used to help folks make decisions
about products in a given category. Hrm. If you run that statement
through Asimov's Language Clarifier, does anything come out the
other side?

I have friends that work in CC testing and eval labs, and they are
all really smart people. Ok, they're a bit bent, but really really smart.
A couple of years ago, I was asked to work with them on the Win2k
CC project. I joined Enterasys instead. At the time, it seemed like
the least painful option. Hindsight is always 20-20, isn't it?

Guess what I got tapped to do just before I left Enterasys? Jump-start the
CC process for Dragon. The Universe is a very strange place. It folds back
on itself at the most inconvenient times. Most of what I had to say about
that before I left usually started with, "Oh God", or, "Oh crap".

I just ran all of the CC documentation through Mr. Asimov's device. I was
curious to see what the result would be. Here it is:

"There is no escape from Common Criteria. Resistance is futile. You will
be assimilated. Now shut up and get your paperwork together. And have
a nice day...or something."

See?


> Fred

Randy

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