Jeff,
> FIrst of all how can you determine if a particular company has common
> set of standards if there are no industry wide excepted set of standards to
> judge any other companies set of standards?
Because the AIP's ACAC Council is determining those standards. We've brought
the top certification companies together, along with other major industry
representation, to determine what is necessary for certification programs to
include. Then we are accrediting programs. Programs are not forced to have
our accreditation. It is AIP's seal of approval, based on a set of
standards, vs. many other associations in other markets that allow
accreditations/endorsements to be "bought". We wanted a common set of
standards for those accreditations/endorsements. And we've put together a
forum where the certification industry can do that.
> Second, I would refute that the AIP is the industries largest professional
> organization. How many members does AIP have Andrew? INEGroup has
> over 85,000 for instance.
To my knowledge, INEGroup is not a 501c6 "professional association". Am I
mistaken? The term "professional association" is used in conjunction with
the definition by the United States 501c6 designation (vs. educational
associations which are 501c3, such as ISOC or the HTML Writers Guild). AIP
has 8500 members.
> BTW this is the first I have seen any posting regarding any discussion group
> list that your organization has been having. I also noticed that there are
> NO archives for that list as well. Hence no public record.
There are no archives for [EMAIL PROTECTED] as the list has
just gone up in the past day or two. The web interface does include publicly
accessible archives once the posts there begin.
> I personally highly encourage others to investigate this AIP bunch
> very closely themselves as well as review the archives of the
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list at www.dnso.org for further background.
Please do! I encourage any and all to ask any questions about the
Association that you wish to. I'll be happy to answer.
Sincerely,
Andrew Kraft
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Andrew Q. Kraft, MAIP
Executive Director, Association of Internet Professionals (AIP)
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Phone: 310-724-6589
More Info: http://www.association.org/
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