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[Anders Nilsson <anders.nilsson AT umu.se>]

I'm taking care of this Stefan.  :)

Cheers
Herr NIlsson

> -----Ursprungligt meddelande-----
> Från: Stefan Winter 
> [mailto:stefan.winter AT restena.lu]
> Skickat: den 28 september 2016 05:42
> Till: Alexander Holm 
> <goremesh AT gmail.com>;
>  
> 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 onboarding service, instead it uses a pretty darn useless and outdated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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