In 1964 Frink defined a normal base. He hypothesized that every Hausdorf compactification of a Tychonof space X may be realized as a compactification w(:) of Wallman type obtained from a normal base 9 on X, where ^ is the family of zero sets for some subring of C(X).
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Bentley et al. (1975) studied this question.