Cubic B-splines for type design.

I am curious about that, are there any attempts about using cubic B-splines as the extended form of cubic Bezier curves?
The advantages of B-splines are:

• Converting cubic B-splines down to Bezier curves is lossless (Boehm's algorithm).
  
• Four-point cubic B-splines with knot interval [0, 1, 0] is identical to one segment of cubic Bezier curve.
• Algorithms for handling cubic B-splines are well-studied (de-Boor, etc).
• B-splines preserves C2 continuity, it could prevent kinks when interpolation.