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[Daniele Albrizio <albrizio AT univ.trieste.it>]

On 28/01/2016 09:14, Ayres G.J. wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > I'm a little bit off-topic here, but alternative ways to select home 
> > institution
> > without location would be very appreciated.
> > Geoip or direct search on home institution name or realm (SAML Discovery
> > services-like) would facilitate users not familiar with activating gps or 
> > inside
> > buildings without gps and gsm coverage (such bunkers are quite frequesnt in
> > research facilities).
>
> Geoip is possible, if cat.eduroam.org can install php-geoip and write a web 
> service the app can query.
>
> Pulling all institutions with configurations available from CAT and allowing 
> a user to search it is also a possibility.
>
> I know you are the second person to request the list-all-institutions feature.

Well, it should be a search-from-a-list-of-all-institutions feature.

> I will add this to the list to discuss with the CAT team.

Thanks a lot.


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