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[Tomasz Wolniewicz <twoln AT umk.pl>]

Hi Alan,

W dniu 04.11.2015 o 19:38, 
A.L.M.Buxey AT lboro.ac.uk
 pisze:
> so, how about this - each NRO can host such an interface but they are ONLY 
> able to present
> their orgs in the list ?
Yes but what about foreign visitors, which place will they go?  Will it
be obvious that they should go to their country federation?
Are we not loosing the functionality of a single full IdP listing?

I see not problem in completely separating the CAT back-end and the user
front-end. The current approach already implements this to a very large
extent. Refactoring the code so that you would have a separate
installation for the front-end and for the back-end would not be a big job.

As the CAT developer I am quite happy with any new challenge, and
distributed, configurable user interface would be just that, but as the
eduroam advocate I am worried about our unity. What I cannot comprehend
is why we cannot agree that as we promote the single eduroam as an
international cooperation symbol, we cannot agree on using a single
configuration site. And what next, are we going to have a separate
Android eduroamCAT for each federation? By separating the access sites
we will also lose the common place where user come with their ideas, be
it a complaint about the UI being ugly :).


Tomasz

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