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

Or just wanted to forget the question and continue whatever he/she was 
doing... :-)

/Jasper

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Från: Stefan Winter 
[mailto:stefan.winter AT restena.lu]
 
Skickat: den 28 september 2016 12:42
Till: Alexander Holm; 
cat-users AT lists.geant.org
Ämne: Re: [[cat-users]] Institution

Hello,

> I am a student in Sweden and our institution does not use CAT as an 
> onboarding service, instead it uses a pretty darn useless and outdated 
> method of installing separate certificates which does not always work.
> 
> I complained to them and suggested them using CAT instead since it 
> seems to be quite good and is widespread among other universities in Sweden.
> They responded that CAT is quite expensive and that they therefore 
> chose not to use it.
> 
> Is CAT expensive? How much does the university pay?

This is one of the more unusual questions we get.

eduroam CAT (https://cat.eduroam.org) is an in-house product of eduroam 
Operations which is run for the benefit of the entire eduroam community 
world-wide. eduroam Operations does not charge anything for the use of CAT.

Ultimately, the permission to make use of CAT is delegated and lies with the 
eduroam National Roaming Operator in the country where the Identity Provider 
is located. In this case, that would be SUNET in Sweden.

It is in principle not unthinkable that an eduroam National Roaming Operator 
would charge their identity providers for the permission to sign-up and use 
eduroam CAT, but I would be really very extremely surprised if that were the 
case in Sweden (or any other eduroam country, for that matter).

In essence, I believe that simply someone was confused when they told you 
that it is expensive :-)

Greetings,

Stefan Winter

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