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Summary
We're now introducing "Web Bot Auth" (WBA), which is a more secure authentication method for verifying bots. Previously, verifying bots was only possible through two flavours of IP validation,
public IP list, andreverse DNS.Web Bot Auth may become the new IETF standard in the near future, and paves the way for better bot detection across the Internet.
This PR restructures and adds information for WBA. Specifically:
Verified bots requirements, which explains what's involved for a bot to be verified.Verified bots policychapter to only talk about the policyVerification methods, which :Policychapter)Policychapter)Things that we need to improve:
Consider absorbingDecided against after discussion.Categorieschapter intoVerification methods(or somewhere else)Reference>FAQs> "WBA FAQs"?Screenshots (optional)
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