Follow-up with Dazza: Is RESO using "dated" protocol? #8
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Dazza, I remember that you raised eyebrows when I mentioned this headline yesterday:
Your subsequent comments led me to believe that RESO is using a dated protocol, and would be better served by using OAuth2? If that is true, can you tutor me on the difference, and does it have implications with what we hope to do with blockchain & PUID.
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RESO and OpenID Connect: The Future of Your Identity
http://bit.ly/RESOpenID
Applying this to real estate, using OpenID Connect will allow members of the MLS to use their MLS credentials to sign into any of the other web sites or apps they use and select which aspects of their identity are given to a website or product.
What benefit does federation provide in the real estate space? Think about overlapping MLS markets, where agents belong to multiple MLSs, often with different systems, requiring different logins and passwords. OpenID Connect provides a solution to that problem with federated identity. With a federated identity, MLS members can log into several MLS vendors by entering a single password, one time. Furthermore, that one authentication could be used to log into other real estate sites, with each site only authorized to access the content the member authorized and, at any time, the member can revoke that access.
For all of the above reasons, OpenID Connect is an excellent standard ready-made for real estate and so RESO should adopt this standard as well. There are a lot of proprietary, vendor lock-in compatibility problems in the real estate sector, and OpenID Connect is the perfect vehicle to start breaking down those barriers for the benefit of our mutual customers.
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RESO and OpenID Connect: The Future of Your Identity
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