diff --git a/swh/deposit/api/common.py b/swh/deposit/api/common.py
--- a/swh/deposit/api/common.py
+++ b/swh/deposit/api/common.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright (C) 2017-2019  The Software Heritage developers
+# Copyright (C) 2017-2020  The Software Heritage developers
 # See the AUTHORS file at the top-level directory of this distribution
 # License: GNU General Public License version 3, or any later version
 # See top-level LICENSE file for more information
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@
 ACCEPT_ARCHIVE_CONTENT_TYPES = ["application/zip", "application/x-tar"]
 
 
-class SWHAPIView(APIView):
+class AuthenticatedAPIView(APIView):
     """Mixin intended as a based API view to enforce the basic
        authentication check
 
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@
     permission_classes: Sequence[Type[BasePermission]] = (IsAuthenticated,)
 
 
-class SWHBaseDeposit(SWHDefaultConfig, SWHAPIView, metaclass=ABCMeta):
+class SWHBaseDeposit(SWHDefaultConfig, AuthenticatedAPIView, metaclass=ABCMeta):
     """Base deposit request class sharing multiple common behaviors.
 
     """
diff --git a/swh/deposit/api/private/__init__.py b/swh/deposit/api/private/__init__.py
--- a/swh/deposit/api/private/__init__.py
+++ b/swh/deposit/api/private/__init__.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright (C) 2017-2019 The Software Heritage developers
+# Copyright (C) 2017-2020 The Software Heritage developers
 # See the AUTHORS file at the top-level directory of this distribution
 # License: GNU General Public License version 3, or any later version
 # See top-level LICENSE file for more information
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 
 from rest_framework.permissions import AllowAny
 
-from swh.deposit.api.common import SWHAPIView
+from swh.deposit.api.common import AuthenticatedAPIView
 from swh.deposit.errors import make_error_dict, NOT_FOUND
 
 
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@
         return utils.merge(*metadata)
 
 
-class SWHPrivateAPIView(SWHDefaultConfig, SWHAPIView):
+class SWHPrivateAPIView(SWHDefaultConfig, AuthenticatedAPIView):
     """Mixin intended as private api (so no authentication) based API view
        (for the private ones).