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[Chris Phillips <Chris.Phillips AT canarie.ca>]

Hi Stefan and CAT team,

I also agree with Philippe's comments regarding HotSpot2.0 settings to be
per institutional IdP instead of default on/off globally. Ultimately
institutions are on the first point of contact and being forced to bear
the burden of vendors (very) poor user experience is not the best outcome
all.

I know we have one institution in our region who has posted on this here
and expect many other CAT institutional users globally to experience the
same challenge as well. Institutions in CAT should be able to opt-in to
HS2.0 support as they are ready to roll it out, which would include
supporting users configuring it etc..



Chris.




On 2015-05-29, 8:44 AM, "Philippe Hanset" 
<phanset AT anyroam.net>
 wrote:

>Stefan,
>
>
>Since the rule of eduroam is that IdPs are the first and primary source
>of support of their users
>it seems logical to let IdPs decide what to do with the proxy-WPAD and
>HS2.0 options (or any ³strong² option for that matter)
>since, in the end, they will be the ones being called about it.
>
>If IdPs turn HS2.0 off and users can¹t join an HS2.0 SP because of this
>decision, in general,
>those users will again call their IdPs for support.
>
>I definitely vote for letting IdPs decide what to do with those options,
>and allow those features to be per-IdP items.
>
>
>Philippe
>
>Philippe Hanset
>www.eduroam.us
>
>
>> 
>> It's a good question and I have no idea (ok, our own offices hotspot
>> does, that much I can say :-) ).
>> 
>> The problem with this config item (as well as the proxy=auto one) is
>> that the admin in CAT does not and cannot know whether turning it on or
>> off is going to be useful to his users.
>> 
>> Either his users eventually roam to a HS20 hotspot or not.
>> 
>> Either his users eventually roam to a proxy-WPAD hotspot or not.
>> 
>> That's why I'm reluctant to make these things a per-IdP config item...
>> we're asking the wrong guy (and there is no right guy to ask). That
>> calls for a global yes/no IMHO.
>> 
>> Greetings,
>> 
>> Stefan Winter
>> 
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