The traditional localization model was very much geared towards isolated computations on stand-alone computers. Today's networked world raises new problems, but also provides new chances for innovative solutions. Because cultural conventions have been developed over a long time, they can not easily be abstracted in an uniform way. The talk will discuss various ways to address the problem, such as identifiers, data formats, and dynamic data exchange (e.g. using Web services), and how they can be structured to work together.