Re: Certification or College degrees? Was: RE: list problems?

[Bram Dov Abramson <bda () bazu org>]

zerocool () netpath net:
> Valdis is from VT, so I hope he's listening.  Why
> couldn't we as a networking community sit down and come up with a degree
> program that goes from BS to PhD?  Sure it can touch on basic programming
> and basic processor design, but it would be more heavily weighted towards
> utilizing technologies on the market and creating solutions to the common
> programs.  It could be a mix between the CCIE, Net+, etc.  Because I know
> my Comp Engineering program doesn't touch on anything related at all to
> networking, and never even mentions the idea of security.  So why not
> create a focused area for this?

cf

Internet Engineering Curriculum Repository
http://www.caida.org/outreach/iec/

MEng Internetworking
http://www.dal.ca/~eine/index.html

cheers
Bram