To make access distinctions possible and to track user activity, the application system must know who it is that is making each request. The primary purpose of Oauth is to provide information that allows the system to make such determination. The basic piece of user information that the system requires for the purpose of user validation is one ("third party") Google account ID for each user. The Bizverse environment uses its copy of these IDs to establish a unique Bizverse identity for each connecting user. All of a user's access rights to Workspaces, Portals and Web Apps are ultimately tied to this identity (in other words, to the user's Google ID).