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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.
