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Steve, you may be in the minority, but I'm inclined to agree with you. The required commonality among implementations could come down to this, in a minimalist view: - Common protocols so that all clients and servers know how to send and receive messages to each other. - Messages that allow ...

The other very important point to this is that since we have a standard defining how KMIP works, people should be able to switch from one KMIP server product to another if they need additional functionality. Of course, the caveat here is that our KMIP spec leaves a lot of things up to the ...

I tend to disagree. I think that's because we have different views of how KMIP might be provided in products. I think the conformance requirement might want to specify the minimum set of things we thing all KMIP servers should support, and not the maximum set. Consider this scenario, ...

Robert Haas asked me to write this up before tomorrow's KMIP call. As I have discussed with a few people, I have concerns about KMIP and its ability to provide the features needed in banking-oriented key management. Others in ANSI X9 are also concerned, and they have asked me to act as a liaison ...