Interesting to know that, Howard. The coalition of the willing also known as the IAF seems not to be able to fight back the unaccredited, pseudo accredited and bogus accredited competition. But, and in part, this is also a result of accredited CB's shooting themselves in the foot, like, for example, when I detected and denounced, almost 15 years ago, a competitor CB, dully and fully accredited, issuing unaccredited certificates to circumvent accreditation requirements. That scenario was captured in the
Accredited registrars issuing non accredited certificates thread.
Also, remember, if we had a functional, effective database of (properly) accredited certificates, like the best-in-class OASIS database, it would be much easier for bogus certificates to be spotted. But, even the creation of such database has been resisted by many in the CB community, failing to have the vision and business acumen they should have, in order to make their business prosper. Shameful.
As usual, the accreditation layer of oversight with their typical slowness of a lazy bureaucrat who feels not being paid enough to do his job, finally reacted and in 2015 issued a resolution against the practice, which was captured and codified by ANAB in it's
Accreditation Rule 42.
So, something that I brought up in 2005 here became an issue of an Accreditation Rule (in the USA) in 2017. I have no idea if the other IAF member AB's have issued similar rules or not. As you can see, even (some) CB's worked against the credibility of the accreditation process and the IAF seems not to have the reaction speed it needs to counteract the threats to it's existence. Risk. Based. Not thinking.
