[BSDCert] recertification

[Axel S. Gruner]

On Mon, 12 Sep 2005, dlavigne6 at sympatico.ca wrote:
> If there is to be a recertification:
> 1. should it be by time period, and which period? every 3 years? every 5 years?

Yes and no. It should be by a time period, but...

> 2. should it be by version number? e.g. if certification was in FreeBSD, should it be when a new release tree is released? e.g. someone certified on FreeBSD 6.x would need to recertify within (e.g. 6 months) of FreeBSD 7.x going stable

...it should be also by version number. If i got a cert of FBSD 6.0, it
should not expire, well, it can not expire, but the recertification
should be a "refresher" certification which would not be the same as a
regular certification. So the "refresher" certification would be much
smaller and the test would be just about the new things in the new major
Version (7.0). 
Also if i got a certification of 6.0 and pass the refresher
certification of 7.0, i can do the refresher cert of 8.0 where the test
would bei just about the new things in 8.0. So the certification should
never be dropped, but the need of a refresher certification i clear.

Axel
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