I agree that it's too bad that there's no official licensure process (at least in the US). Strangely enough, when I asked on HN and reddit there seemed to be a lot of hostility to the idea. [1][2]

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6318923

[2]http://www.reddit.com/r/engineering/comments/1lmnjq/thoughts...