This document describes how services in the Virtual Observatory can advertise their support for authentication methods, especially for use by non-browser clients.
Note this document has undergone some name changes in its history; an earlier version was called IAP (Interoperable Authentication Protocol). The repository was renamed from IAP to AuthVO on 13 June 2025.
Stable versions of this document may become available through the IVOA document repository.
To build a PDF or HTML version of this document, you will need a reasonably
complete LaTeX installation, a sufficiently capable make, preferably
latexmk and probably
rsvg-convert. Alternatively, IVOA
provides a Docker Image with the required enviroment already installed
(ivoatex-docker). For further
details, see ivoatexDoc.
This document is distributed under CC-BY-SA.