[ih] Gateway Issue: Certification (was Re: booting linux on a 4004)

[Dave Crocker]

On 10/6/2024 7:28 PM, Jack Haverty via Internet-history wrote:
> Several years ago, I suggested to someone on the ISOC Board that ISOC 
> consider developing some kind of "ISOC Approved" logo, and of course 
> associated testing mechanisms and bureaucracy.   I'm not sure what if 
> anything happened afterwards though. 

That is an operational effort and since it delivers success/failure 
assessments, is likely to be controversial. Perhaps I've missed bit, but 
I believe ISOC has neither of these in its DNA.

Perhaps a semi-independent certification effort, with ISOC oversight -- 
which it does have in its DNA.

But ultimately the question is not just what the value add will be, over 
long-standing processes, but how will that value be enough to justify 
the considerable effort and expense?  Oh, and how will industry be 
convinced to engage with it, given it hasn't had to, for 40 years?

d/

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