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[Metselaar Jasper <jasper.metselaar AT sundsvall.se>]

This discussion has become an interesting one. :-)

The best solution, in my humble opinion, would be a central CAT site. 
But the main reason that other configuration sites pop up is because the 
design of the official site is not very intuitive and confusing for end 
users. Especially the mobile version is confusing and I have heard quite a 
few users saying that they would not trust that site.
My guess is that, if the official CAT site would be more attractive, with a 
easy to use (end user)interface, there wouldn't be a need for most of the 
"local" implementations.

Personally I don't think there are many organizations/NROs that want to 
create, host or maintain a CAT site just because they can. They probably 
started their own CAT site because the official CAT site doesn't meet their 
needs.

/Jasper

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Från: Tomasz Wolniewicz 
[mailto:twoln AT umk.pl]
 
Skickat: den 4 november 2015 20:12
Till: 
A.L.M.Buxey AT lboro.ac.uk
Kopia: 
cat-users AT geant.net
Ämne: Re: [cat-users] CAT website design and Swedish translation?

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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