...slick marketing is the way to boost their sales. Product spin is a complete turn off for security professionals. Encryptionproducts, in particular, require careful marketing, because they are one of the hardest sells of all. And that’s not...
http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/david_lacey/security-solutions/
By defining a protocol that can be used by any cryptographic client, ranging from a simple automated electric meter to very complex disk-arrays, KMIP enables enterprise key management servers to communicate via a single protocol to all cryptographic clients supporting that protocol.
http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2009-02-27-a.html