Okay, just reread the cc and had missed the import of the csp discussion.
From the CC:
"Sevinsky: So, I’m going to give you a little easier question, for the second question. It relates to giving away the CSP. Aside from the theoretical advantages of interoperability and how well positioned you are, can you give us tangible examples of how that can generate revenue for you?
SKS: Yeah, my tools for backup and recovery are a set of interfaces that are part of my CSP that are proprietary to Wave. So anyone who uses Wave’s CSP can therefore benefit from backup and recovery. But if you want to benefit from backup and recovery, you’ve got to show up on my doorstep and buy my backup and recovery tools, as an example.
Eisler: So just because this CSP is cross platform or multi vendor doesn’t mean that it’s multi vendor on the server side.
SKS: That’s correct.
Eisler: Okay. Very good. Thank you.
SKS: In other words, so let me explain it just a little differently. In other words it does the proper layering of cryptographic services for those application vendors who want to write to it. So it looks just like a normal layer of cryptographic services software as every application vendor would expect it. But we’ve been able to include in our layer connectors that come out the side, not out the top or bottom, but out the side that allow it to plug in on the side to our infrastructure that makes it easy to manage, deploy, remotely manage, control, etc, that trusted platform. We believe that if I’m an enterprise and I have 10,000 Trusted Computers, I’m going to want one counsel to manage those Trusted Computers, and then I’m going to want each one of my applications to use Trusted Computers. But I don’t want each application vendor to have to get up in the morning and think about managing Trusted Computers. They should only think about using Trusted Computers. And so the management tools plug in the side. Those side interfaces are very typically in the industry proprietary interfaces. Where the top interfaces and the bottom are the stuff defined by standards. Does that help?
Eisler: Oh, absolutely. I understood. That was a very good explanation."
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