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[Paul Dekkers <paul.dekkers AT surf.nl>]

Hi list!

There were not that many posts to this mailing list (this is the first 
;-)), but quite a number of subscribers already. This mail is to share 
some updates about geteduroam.

As you may have noticed by the updates in the Apple App Store and Google 
Play Store, Jørn and I worked very hard to meet a deadline for Android 
API compatibility. This resulted in the 1.0.16 release that we are quite 
happy with!

This version of the geteduroam App for iOS/iPadOS and Android has no 
known bugs as of yet, and like the Windows App works with:
- The organisation discovery from the App, to download a profile from CAT
- The organisation discovery from the App, using federated 
authentication to get a pseudo-accounts for eduroam via the App
- Loading an .eap-config from the filesystem, like manually downloaded 
from eduroam CAT or the hosted IdP

We are still working on macOS: for the pseudo-accounts we have a working 
.mobileconfig download as intermediate solution. For ChromeOS we are 
unsure whether we can properly configure the devices: the last resort 
solution would be to present .onc-profile downloads.

There is a lot in the Apps, allowing the user to explicitly accept Terms 
and Conditions, get support options, present logo’s… Quite some time was 
spent on getting the Apps to support Passpoint (Hotspot 2.0) roaming 
networks next to SSID configuration, and it will do so by default (as 
configured in CAT) if the EAP-types are compatible on the platform.

The pseudo-account creation has a lot of potential. We’re doing the 
first trials in the Netherlands and have institutions that are using the 
Azure AD cloud based IdP to create these eduroam credentials, and also 
have an organisation that is already geteduroam-only for their eduroam 
accounts. (They are small ;-))

We will provide more information on how to provide this workflow 
yourselves in due course, all of this work is available on GitHub 
already. But we’ll also offer a (demo) service that an NRO and IdP can 
opt-in to. This is the easiest way to get familiar with this workflow. 
More on that later; but if you are interested in an early trial or demo 
account on one of the existing platforms, please contact us.

For completeness, most resources can be found via https://www.geteduroam.app

Jørn and Paul

P.S. Let us know what you prefer to see on this list: we can use it for 
periodic updates, indicate every new release (or possibly the ones that 
you can test from TestFlight?). It’s a new list, new community, …