True Facts About Elektra

It is much more an agreement then a piece of software. Relation is 99% to 1%.
It is a simple and consistent API to help software developers programatically store and retrieve global and user-specific configuration parameters.
All key-value pairs are stored in clear-text files, UTF-8 encoded. All old charsets are also supported, with automatic transparent conversion to and from UTF-8.
API supports change notifications and multiple backends.
It provides a unique namespace for all values. Anywhere, anytime, any program can preciselly access keys by their names. Security restrictions may obviously apply.
It is designed to be secure and lightweight, to let even early boot-stage programs like /sbin/init to use it, instead of /etc/inittab file.
It is designed to be easy to administrate with regular command line tools like cat, vi, cp, ls, ln. Its storage is 100% open.
It tries to set distribution-independent naming standards to store things like hardware configuration, networking, user's session configuration, system's mime-types, parameters for kernel modules, etc, that are generally stored under /etc.
It requires existing software to be changed to use its API. This will substitute hundreds of configuration-text-file parsing code, into clear Elektra's API key-value access methods.
It is POSIX compliant. If it doesn't compile and run easily on some POSIX system, it should be easily modified to do so.