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[Stefan Winter <stefan.winter AT restena.lu>]

Hello Ian,

> I am in the process of implementing a home site for the Natural
> Environment Research Council (N.E.R.C.) and I’m about to investigate
> client configuration.

> Is it possible/allowed to set my test systems compliance to  “complies
> with home requirements” to obtain a token for Cat and then use in
> testing/producing our web page?   Or is Cat only usable for full
> production systems?
> 
> Thanks for any advice, as this is all new to me and I need to get a
> proof of concept running ASAP.

From CAT's point of view, there is no need to "cheat" in terms of
production status of your setup. CAT has a method to invite admins-to-be
before they are in full production status - we recognised that the most
value of CAT installers is during the bootstrap phase, so enabling that
use case was one of our major goals.

This is a manual action triggered by the national eduroam administrators
though. In your case, you would need to contact JRS Support / Janet to
request the invitation token from them. They can register your IdP as a
"new" institution and type in the mail address and inst name manually,
as opposed to selecting "existing" institution and choose you from a
dropdown list.

Note that I have no insight how high JRS has set the bar to do that
step; that's up to negotiation between you and them.

Greetings,

Stefan Winter

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> Regards
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> Ian
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