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15 January 2020
etc Venues Bishopsgate
Europe/London timezone

OAuth with PeeringDB for Network Operators

15 Jan 2020, 14:25
30m
Broadgate 1 & 2 (etc Venues Bishopsgate)

Broadgate 1 & 2

etc Venues Bishopsgate

155 Bishopsgate Liverpool Street London EC2M 3YD
Main Session

Speaker

Mr O'Donovan Barry (INEX)

Description

Logging into websites using our Google / Twitter / Facebook / GitHub accounts is a web browsing paradigm most of us are very used to nowadays. The technology underlining the ability to register or login to one site using your account details from another site is OAuth (Open Authorization) - an open standard for token-based authentication and authorization on the internet.

PeeringDB has recently completed the development of their own OAuth service. This new feature opens a number of interesting possibilities for network to network ISPs and IXPs to provide their customers with registration-free access to portals and other online services. This reduces the administrative burden on providers and delivers a better user experience for customers.

This presentation will discuss OAuth: how it works, is it secure and can it be trusted. We will then review PeeringDB's implementation and how INEX now uses PeeringDB's OAuth service to allow our members access our IXP Manager portal.

Primary author

Mr O'Donovan Barry (INEX)

Presentation materials