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 > — Jacob Kaplan-Moss, ["REST worst practices"][cite]
 
-Authentication is the mechanism of associating an incoming request with a set of identifying credentials, such as the user the request came from, or the token that it was signed with.  The [permission] and [throttling] policies can then use those credentials to determine if the request should be permitted.
+Authentication is the mechanism of associating an incoming request with a set of identifying credentials, such as the user request came from, or the token that it was signed with.  The [permission] and [throttling] policies can then use those credentials to determine if the request should be permitted.
 
 REST framework provides a number of authentication schemes out of the box, and also allows you to implement custom schemes.