Word of the Day: Canonicalization
I think that I will start doing a word of the day when I come across interesting words.
Today’s word is Canonicalization. I saw this one in a group policy dealing with a special version of PuTTY.
A definition: Canonicalization is the process of converting data that has more than one possible representation into a “standard” canonical representation. This can be done to compare different representations for equivalence, to count the number of distinct data structures (e.g., in combinatorics), to improve the efficiency of various algorithms by eliminating repeated calculations, or to make it possible to impose a meaningful sorting order.
The context that I saw this in was dealing with DNS. It was DNS canonicalization which is querying DNS in order to append a domain to the end of a hostname.
Filed under: Windows, Word of the Day, Networking on May 18th, 2007
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