[Sigia-l] Info Architects BANNED IN OHIO

[Smokey Lynne L Bare]

Hi,

Please read below... and if at all possible, please post ASAP.  Contact
info is down below.  We need IT industry support on this one... if Ohio
goes through with this, it might have a cross-impact with other state
Boards.  



Ohio's board for landscape and construction architect certification is
trying to use a 1990 Ohio Revised Code law preventing anyone in the IT
field using the word architect related to their job description. 
Enclosed please see a portion of an e-mail going to a contact at MS.  As
most of you know, I consult for pockets of DLA and Dod on info management
and information processes.  What we have found is that this will
cross-impact all companies coming into Ohio and possibly creep to other
states, which list IT 'architects' of any type from securing jobs under
those job descriptions - enterprise architects, software architects, and
network/server/systems architects, and so on.  The  Fed. Gov. does
recognize the use of the term as at our base.  We have several awards out
with those positions, but here in Ohio, we have a bigger issue... read
the e-mail, and please, for the sake of our field, if you can provide
(companies who recognize IT jobs with 'architect' in the job title) your
company's contacts (and pass to other companies) to the attorneys listed
below, please do so.  If any of you know folks at PeopleSoft, please have
them contact Benson Wolman, as well.  This will be cross-impacting our
Homeland Project office here in Ohio if they get their way.

Thanks....everyone....

even though Kent State (Ohio) offers a degree in it, the board still
won't let individuals use the term... I've been listed as an IA for 7
years now, speaking regionally and nationally at different IT venues...
and this is a first for me too.

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Thank you so much for your help.  Currently, I'm working with the former
DLA Chief Counsel for this district, and the past director of the ACLU
for our area on this as well.  Please, please have your attorneys contact
call them directly.  I have met with a State Senator and the Architect
Certification Board Director on this problem in April.  This
Construction/Landscape Certification Board is mostly composed of retired
construction architects, who feel they can 'own' the word.  They even
gave the impression they should certify us... perhaps.... yeah, right, I
don't think so... they didn't even know what information architecture was
until I brought descriptive listings of the twelve (12) fields in IT that
dealt with our profession.  I even showed them information from DoD on
enterprise architects, Netscapes' server architects, and to boot, ready
for this - L'Oreal's Lash Architect, which is a mascara.  I asked them
jokingly if they would restrain MS and L'Oreal from using the word too. 
Not in Ohio was the essence of the reply.  Part of my presentation also
was material on Bill Gates, collected from another sub-W3 group I was
helping.  It was the article that ID'd Mr. Gates as a software architect
expert.  As one of many international reviewers of the new ISO/IEEE doc
standards for 2000, I can tell you our rolls in building any standards
has nothing in common with landscape and construction architecture.

The Fed. attorney, Walter Pierce, and I wrote an exception to the Ohio
Revised Code, originally written in 1932.  It was composed of three to
four sentences that pulled any job description relating to the IT
ecologies out of their jurisdiction.  Last month, while I was the guest
speaker on MIL standard documentation and information ownership at the
STC National Convention, I discussed this with several software
development firms that all said MS and Cisco should be made aware of this
issue. Once corrected, it should set precedence nationally for other
states to follow.

Our Attorney General should realize the 'big picture' after the industry
comes together, they should, I say should, revise the code.  But .... we
need input from folks and companies out of state, as I am instate and
there is no issue when I consult out of state, only within the state. 
This is something that needs to be rectified shortly.  They gave us 20
days (4 have gone by) to respond.  Now you see our urgency.  Any other
contacts you may have, whereby this could affect their employees or
positions, please have them contact the following two attorneys.

Benson Wolman - former ACLU Executive Director 614-280-1000/253-4588, and
lead attorney.

Walter Pierce - former DLA Chief District Counsel  614-270-3215/237-5436.

Thank you so much for your help 


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As I stated, thank you for your help.....folks...this is not just
affecting information architecture, but any type of architecture in the
IT field.  One state should not call the shots for the whole nation...
and unfortunately, they can cause harm if we don't get some outside
corporate support.

Smokey
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Smokey Lynne Bare, C.T.C
Information Architect & Business Process Consultant
TBN Information Network
742 Rebecca Avenue, Westerville, OH  43081-1863 / Phone/Fax -
614.899.2273
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