C2E is a decentralized document format. When digital content is created to the C2E specification, it handles all of the security, licensing, rendering and data exchange processes needed to make every piece of digital content portable and protected.

The implementation of the C2E digital content specification also allows the handling of licensing, royalty, and distribution of compensation workflows to its authoring partners. On execution, C2E-compliant documents provide the learner an opportunity to record his/her learning experiences to a central learning record store of their choice.

By default, C2E uses simple JavaScript on the client side, and HTTPS+JSON APIs as its baseline transport on the server side, but also embraces more sophisticated transports such as WebSockets where necessary.