Of course the two should have different designations. My point was that “certificate” and “certification” cannot intelligently be the two designating terms. Bureaucrat fiat may try to make these two words work as “different designations,” but they only will “mean differently” if someone like you writes a dozen paragraphs explain why identical terms actually mean different things.
Wouldn’t it be easier to use terms that really are different? Neither you nor the bureaucrats would have to write these long explanations.
But that would be simple. And bureaucrat and simple don’t mix. They are both different terms AND very different realities.
Lol, as I recall, it was you who started this off with a very long explanation. And whatever the two documents might be called, certificate and certification have different meanings. As long as that's kept in mind, it's easy to distinguish between the two documents.