Also I think your incentives point is interesting. Right now the auditors (the CAs) are being paid by the auditees for the auditing. Wall Street a decade ago sh

Also I think your incentives point is interesting. Right now the auditors (the CAs) are being paid by the auditees for the auditing. Wall Street a decade ago shows us what's wrong with that. If we want to get the incentives right we need a way for CAs to get most of their money from the certs' clients rather than from those who deploy them.