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

Thu May 23 02:53:18 UTC 2002

zerocool at 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?

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

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

cheers
Bram