And a16z. It's a pretty common silicon valley convention. I was even asked to implement this in an interview once.

I wish I had that as an interview question.

What is a16z ? A google search only returns references to Andreessen Horowitz

Not sure if you are joking but that is what it means

so you are asked to build the best ARM CPU in the world?

ha, me too, 4-5 years ago!

a11y for accessibility also (and perhaps "ally" too?), but is a bit ironic given that screen readers wouldn't be making much sense out of that one.

XML-Canonicalization is xml-c14n too!