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

Hello,

>> In our opinion a model with CAT as the central repository for all profiles 
>> is best.
> 
> Might be, but if the central profile repository is beyond your country we 
> have to discuss about legal certainty, I mean in case of a bugged 
> repository and may I remind you to the SecureW2 affair, we can’t exclude 
> this. 

What specifically did you find suboptimal about our handling of SecureW2?

Since we operate a big central instance, we took the intial wave of
hits, set up and paid for significant amounts of legal advice, fixed our
code within hours (your instance is necessarily a little timeframe
behind our hotfixes, so yours was necessarily exposing possibly affected
installers for a longer time), and are dealing with the aftermath of the
incident, e.g. by working on a replacement product.

Did/do you provide German institutions with some kind of superior
protection compared to what we did?

> Again good point, since we offer our own CAT instance based on eduroam CAT 
> code only around 100 of around 300 IDPs are using CAT. I’m afraid they are 
> not convinced about eduroam CAT.

Oh, but that's great! The product has conquered a third of the available
market! And that with significant competition available - several
commercial ones, some that even come bundled ("free") with the Wi-Fi
infrastructure, and of course our probably most fierce competitor "no
need to do anything / PDFs are fine" attitude.

Maybe you are disappointed about ~ 33% market share - I'm not :-)

Considering that the remaining 67% are somehow distributed among say 5
commercial alternatives plus the do-nothing-attitudes, one could
probably say that we're #1 in terms of market share :-)

Greetings,

Stefan Winter

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