The following links give some insight into how a lighting-independent (within 
reason) color profile is prepared:

 http://ninedegreesbelow.com/photography/camera-profile-make-target-shot.html

 http://ninedegreesbelow.com/photography/well-behaved-camera-profile.html

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jys

On Wed, Aug 17, 2016, at 12:47, ternaryd wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I was just wondering how an input profile for a
> camera works in darktable.
> 
> If I understood right, an ICC profile also
> includes the white point, but the lighting
> conditions can yield a different white point,
> and darktable allows me to change that. Does
> this mean, I would need a different profile for
> each lighting condition?
> 
> Aren't the base curves as distributed with
> darktable basically like a profile? What white
> point do they assume? If they yield a maximum
> intensity per color channel, some white point
> is implied, right?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -- 
> Cris
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